- Science
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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
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020