Edward Norton Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.
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As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:
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Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.
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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.
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There is no hell. There is only France.
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As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.
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Whitman had a profound influence on me. … He was useful to me in the perfection of form, as a sort of compromise between the strict and the free.
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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
