Andrew Stanton Quotes
I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.
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Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
