Up Quotes
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My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
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I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.
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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.
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Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.
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I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.
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I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.
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Learning method acting might mess me up.
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.
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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself.
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He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.
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I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.
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I usually mug up my Telugu dialogues much before going to the sets every day.
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I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.
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The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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Storytelling is always evolving, but if you allow people with new voices and perspectives to come in, you open audiences up to different walks of life.
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Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.
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Doing something with Uniqlo means you come up with a wardrobe which is universal and quirky.
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I would love to be an example to young LGBTQ kids everywhere. I remember growing up and feeling like nobody in the media accurately represented me, and when they did, it was always made to seem like a bad thing.
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A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.
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Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.
