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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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If you have to forecast, forecast often.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
