Axl Rose Quotes
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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Certainly in the case of 'Kill Your Friends,' a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it.
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I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
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I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
