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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
- Nov 07, 2020
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020