Ben Schnetzer Quotes
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I'll remind you that the West signed a deal with North Korea, said it would make the world a safer place, and, of course, all the words evaporated, and North Korea acquired nuclear weapons.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
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I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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I am not allowing myself to get carried away.
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My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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I'm always cooking big veggie curries for friends with tons of spices, coconut milk, chilli - I'll saute potatoes in the spices, then cook them with all the flavours and stir in some chickpeas and spinach at the end before serving it on a bed of sesame brown rice. It's easy to do and tastes amazing!
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Most of stuff I audition for is stuff I think is socially relevant.
