Anthony Mackie Quotes

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Believe
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• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

  

  Madeline Kahn
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• I had no desire to crash a man's world.

  

  Ida Lupino
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• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
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• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
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• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

  

  Dan Brown
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• When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

  

  Jason Fried
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  • Time
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• It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Live
  • Together
  • Parents

• I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Lost
  • College
  • Realize

• Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

  

  Pat Robertson

• Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

  

  Anthony Mackie
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