Edward Norton Quotes
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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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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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I'm not a follower.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
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I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?
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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
