Elijah Wood Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
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Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
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I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.
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It was a wonderful project to work on, and a very different character for me.
