LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.
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A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.
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Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.
