Xander Berkeley Quotes
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'
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If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
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It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
