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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
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You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
