Andrew J. West Quotes
Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.
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Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.
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The most fun I've had on 'Burn Notice,' I think it would have to be working with China Chow and Lucy Lawless.
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I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.
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Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
