Chris Weitz Quotes
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I don't like allegories.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.
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One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.
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People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.
