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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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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It's pretty inappropriate of fans to think they can expect any kind of narrative from showrunners or writers or actors. I just don't think that's the way you should engage with material that you're watching as a passive audience member.
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And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
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The diversity in the CNN makeup room - it's like Ellis Island! No, it's like Noah's Ark: there are two of everything.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.
