Kevin Kline Quotes
I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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My characters hope for better lives.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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Making music is fantastic.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
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My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
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I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.
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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
