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'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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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.
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.
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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
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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.
