Marc Davis Quotes
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.
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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
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I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
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"A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
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I hated how Sam Rothstein got manipulated by Sharon Stone's character in 'Casino.' I mean, I just hate how he gets manipulated; that just gets ridiculous to me. I know it's historic, but I hated that.
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I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
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A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.
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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
