Eminem Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken.
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The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
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Nobody said being platinum was easy.
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I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
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Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.
