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 don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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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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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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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 think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.
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Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.
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Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.
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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.
