Antoine Fuqua Quotes
Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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I feel like the character of Han Solo is irreverent. A very serious, precious story about Han Solo would not be that enjoyable.
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Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.
