- Long
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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
My dad even likes to give me career advice. I'll let him know about some offers about films and TV shows that I get, and he'll ask me questions like, 'What's the money like?' and 'Who got this for you - was it your agent or manager, and what are they getting out of this?'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the one who is saying, 'Look, I'm going to take this from the ground up and create a story that is meaningful to me as an Asian American and cast it with Asian Americans and have Asian Americans writing it.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
- Period
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- Nov 07, 2020
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of boxing is to do with your mental state. Evander Holyfield talks about spirit. I definitely have that spirit and feel like I've got something special inside me. It's about me bringing it out, controlling it and using it to become world champion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020