Lacey Schwimmer Quotes
Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.
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In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
