Ned Vizzini Quotes
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
Quotes to Explore
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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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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We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
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Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.
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Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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I oil my hair once a week with warm coconut and almond oil and wash it after an hour of application. The days I don't shoot, I make sure I don't even blow dry my hair after a shower. I also use heat protecting serums and leave-in serums before styling.
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I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
