Kevin Kline Quotes
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I am not honest.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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Our body is the temple of our spirit.
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And you stood there in front of me justClose enough to touch,Close enough to hope you couldn't seeWhat I was thinking of.Drop everything now,Meet me in the pouring rain.Kiss me on the sidewalk,Take away the pain.'Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile.
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It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.
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Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.
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I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live. We don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks.
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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
