Colin O'Donoghue Quotes
How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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I don't eat red meat.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I'd really like to give back to the world, but everything I've achieved, I've earned on my own, so what's the point?
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
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For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.
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How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
