Me Quotes
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My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
