Olympia Dukakis Quotes
I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
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I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
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I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
