Me Quotes
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As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'
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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
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I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.
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'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
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A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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It would never occur to me to judge anyone.
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
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I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
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Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
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I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.
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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
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John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
