- Life
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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
- Stage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to cast away concerns you might have about what other people think about you.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Bring It On,' I really have to give most of the credit to the people who lifted me up. In cheerleading, a lot of the work is from the guys lifting you, and my body would just have to stay straight or firm or tight.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.
- Dating
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it's a much shorter process.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to lie: I miss the grass and the trees... I miss home. On a Sunday morning, you could chill on the deck and listen to people mowing their lawns. It was very serene.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020