Marin Ireland Quotes
As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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If you don't cherish past experiences, you cannot learn from them and you cannot move on.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.
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I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.
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If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.
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As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
