Danny Huston Quotes

• Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

  Danny Huston

  Character, Imperfection, Acting

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• I seem to play a lot of losers.

  Danny Huston

  Play, Loser, Seems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

  Danny Huston

  Art, Example, Problem

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I had no ambitions to become an actor, whatsoever. I was just waiting for my films to get made and some friends of mine, out of the kindness of their hearts, because I was sitting around doing nothing, started casting me in small roles and the roles got bigger.

  Danny Huston

  Kindness, Heart, Ambition

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

  Danny Huston

  Clothes, Generations, Lawyer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

  Danny Huston

  Actors, Circus, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

  Danny Huston

  Memories, Father, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

  Danny Huston

  Storyteller

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

  Danny Huston

  Movie, Understanding, Acting

  "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.

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• Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

  Danny Huston

  Home, Fighting, Pride

  Source: collider.com

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• I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

  Danny Huston

  Father, Long, Suffering

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

  Danny Huston

  Drawing, Passionate, Pads

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.

  Danny Huston

  Father, Eye, Quality

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• As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.

  Danny Huston

  Hate, Games, Waiting

  "Danny Huston Talks New Starz Series MAGIC CITY and Playing Poseidon in WRATH OF THE TITANS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

  Danny Huston

  Shots, Young

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• The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

  Danny Huston

  Knowing, Stories, Tvs

  "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

  Danny Huston

  Acting, Directors

  "Danny Huston Talks New Starz Series MAGIC CITY and Playing Poseidon in WRATH OF THE TITANS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

  Danny Huston

  Evil, Villain, Whole

  "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

  Danny Huston

  Ambition, Actors

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• Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

  Danny Huston

  Growing Up, World, Film

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• At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at, you really depend on the director to create that world for you.

  Danny Huston

  Knowing, Directors, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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