Projects Quotes - Page 33

• Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Independence, Hobbies, Financial

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• I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

  Josh Hartnett

  Unique, Games, Always Trying

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• It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

  Tim Robbins

  Talking, Progressive, Made

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• I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Powerful, Fighting, Europe

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Patrick Riley (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Passion, Light

  "The Monkey Grammarian". Book by Octavio Paz, Ch. 2, 1974.

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• Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Ideas, People, Intellectual

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Actors, Kind

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• I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

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• It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

  Justin Bartha

  Actors, Sides, Involved

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

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• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Art, Book, Kids

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• I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Intuition

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

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• I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Years, People, Missing

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

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• I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

  Stanley Tucci

  Someday, Bigger

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• The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four year old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Dream, Sex

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Sweet, Drama, Actors

  "Interview: Lupita Nyong’o Takes S&A Inside the Emotion and Brutality of Filming ’12 Years a Slave’". Interview with Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Actors, Kind, Speak

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• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Home, Historical

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• As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Home, Writing, Phones

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

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• When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

  Ty Pennington

  House, Tree, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m interested not just in projects that I’ll be starring in, but producing film and TV that’s really quality and great for adults; and when I say great for adults, it doesn’t mean without humor, because I’m also interested in doing comedy.

  Lance Reddick

  Mean, Quality, Adults

  "Lance Reddick & Steve Adams Talk To S&A About Newly-Formed Christai Productions". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

  Karen Allen

  Son, Want, Months

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• One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

  Heather Langenkamp

  Annoying, Intention, Annoying Things

  "Heather Langenkamp: It’s frustrating not to have experienced ‘Elm Street’". PopWrap Interview, pagesix.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

  Alistair Cockburn

  Development, Infancy, Software

  Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.54, Pearson Education

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