Chris Sarandon Quotes
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.
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In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
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Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.
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Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
