LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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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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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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I do love a dark movie.
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For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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There is no caste in blood.
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Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.
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I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
