Bette Davis Quotes
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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I don't read books.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
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They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I’m inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.
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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
