Anthony Michael Hall Quotes
You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit a story, week to week, push things in a different way than you can in a film, and you are able to go deeper, simply because you have more time. I'm just excited to do that. It's always good to do new things.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The wonderful thing with some of the things I've done - most of them, really - is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!
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The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
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You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.
