Steven Tyler Quotes
Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
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Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
