Amy Jackson Quotes
I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
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One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.
