Louis C. K. Quotes
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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I have a relatively good track record.
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I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.
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When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
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I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
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I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.
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It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
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Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
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Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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All love gets over, and we must get over it.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.
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I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
