David Draiman Quotes
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.
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The scariest film in the world is 'Rosemary's Baby.'
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I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.
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I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.
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I get treatment every day, just to keep on top of my body and help me recover, and it's really helped me a lot.
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I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.
