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.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Things
  • Journey
  • Go

• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Color

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• 'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Over

• 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.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Acting
  • Loved
  • Year

• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Poverty
  • For Him

• 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.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

  

  Usher
  • Like
  • Things
  • Daring

• 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.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Movie
  • Two
  • India

• I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Different
  • Things
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Camera

• I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Independent

• 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.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids

• I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Actor

• 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.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • God
  • Movie
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Movie
  • Think
  • First

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Real
  • Alone

• I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

  

  James Michael Aloysius Bradford
  • Life
  • Control
  • Angry

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Hate

• Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

  

  Nathaniel Altman
  • War
  • Nonviolence
  • Abstention

• 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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