Larry Bishop Quotes
I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'
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Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
