Reason Quotes - Page 36

• I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Accepted

  Deanna Raybourn (2013). “A Spear of Summer Grass”, p.175, Harlequin

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• The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

  Katharine McPhee

  Kids, Careers, Acting

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• I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Fans, Film, Bigs

  "Mads Mikkelsen on A Royal Affair: Q&A". The Star interview, www.thestar.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

  Liza Minnelli

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Lunch with a legend" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2008.

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• I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Thinking, People, Fans

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks 'Party Down' Movie, Going Bridal at Sundance in Two Wedding Comedies". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 23, 2012.

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• It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Successful, People, Copying

  "Q&A: Jesse Eisenberg's Best Role Yet". Interview with Calum March, www.esquire.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, People, Actresses

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• Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

  Christine Lahti

  News, Actors, Good Work

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• Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason. I don't know.

  Emile Hirsch

  Morning, Kids, Cereal

  "7 Questions with Emile Hirsch". Interview with John Newlin, www.zimbio.com. May 7, 2008.

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• You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.

  Jack Nicholson

  Beautiful, Real, Past

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• If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Incentives, Corporations, Facts

  “Stephen Colbert must be stopped!” by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2012.

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• History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

  Sarah Vowell

  Interesting, Stories, Want

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• Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Dark, Trying, Granted

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Moving, Always Trying, People

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• With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

  Penelope Keith

  Drama, Play, Gone

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• I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

  John Travolta

  Real, Needs, Reason Why

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• Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

  Peter Mullan

  Boss, Criminals, World

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

  David Suchet

  Philosophy, Character, Voice

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• I'm afraid if I don't keep moving, they're going to catch me ... I am 81 years old and I want to see what's around the corner, and I don't see any reason in the world not to keep working. But I am starting to value my down time a great deal because I am realizing there might be other things to do that I am overlooking.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Moving, Years, World

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• For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

  John Barrowman

  Middle, Knows, Massive

  "John Barrowman interview: Sometimes fans send me knickers, but I never send mine back". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  Kat Dennings

  Boring, No Reason

  "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

  Adam Arkin

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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

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• The only advice my Dad's given me is: If you ain't having fun, it ain' working, so always have fun with what you're doing. If you don't love it then there's no reason to do it. And don't do it for fame or money- do it because it's something that you feel is right.

  Miley Cyrus

  Fun, Dad, Advice

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• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  Patrick Duffy

  Book, Writing, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

  Danai Gurira

  Writing, Topics, Shame

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