- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a good juggler. If you want to court a woman, you need to be able to juggle five balls, fire, and knives.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing's hipper than leaving the set of 'Girls' in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing you have to get when you play somebody iconic is you have to get lucky. More than anything else, you have to make a leap of faith and know that somewhere, the net will appear, and you'll find your way.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020