Austin Butler Quotes
I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.
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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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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.
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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.
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Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.
