Cliff Curtis Quotes
As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.
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The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.
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I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
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Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.
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As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
