Edgar Ramirez Quotes
I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
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When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.
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I have a dog. He needs to be walked, and I love running, so I pull out my running shoes.
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I'm a bit of a propagandist.
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My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.
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I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.
