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When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
