Colin Salmon Quotes
I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
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I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
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A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.
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I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.
