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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Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
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Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.
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You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don't know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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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.
