Xavier Dolan Quotes
I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.
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Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
