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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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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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 decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
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Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.
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From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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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.
