Elijah Wood Quotes
I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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No matter how exhausted I am after a show, I always take my makeup off. Even if it's just with a remover wipe.
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I'm an actor more than anything else.
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I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.
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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
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I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.
