- Flames
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- 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
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my perspective the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and, you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020