Ben Schwartz Quotes
I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
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Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
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I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.
