Courteney Cox Quotes

I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
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• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
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• I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
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• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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• I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  

  Candice Accola
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• Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

  

  Zach Woods
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• Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle - clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

  

  Gemma Ward
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• I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

  

  Adam Sandler
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• Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

  

  Donald Miller
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• I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
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• I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.

  

  Courteney Cox
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