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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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
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We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.
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The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.
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What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.
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People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.
