Xavier Dolan Quotes
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.
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You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?
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Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
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I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
