- Best
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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
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to eat?' Your stomach hurts. Then you get so upset and mad, like, no food. You start having tantrums and don't want to do anything. You get mad at everybody because you don't have any food. That's what happens when you don't eat. You are so sluggish.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
- Hypocrisy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020