You Quotes
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When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
