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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Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.
