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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Marvel has, like, 9,000 characters. They could do a horror movie tomorrow and call it Marvel. They can do anything.
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If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'
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I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.
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Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?
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I'm the last senior executive who was hired by Roy Vagelos. It's an honor, but it also imposes upon me an obligation not only to think about his legacy but also about this company's legacy.
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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.
