Lord Byron Quotes
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.
