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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.
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I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There's a small blockchain movement in the Caribbean. They've been quite a bit more advanced than you might've imagined.
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What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.
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I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.
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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.
