Bennett Miller Quotes
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.
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It often gives a lady a pleasure to giver her lover a pang.
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I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.
