Stuff Quotes - Page 31

• Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

  Megan Hilty

  Fun, Laughing, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Cutting, Ties

  "Morgan Freeman Talks OBLIVION, Working with Tom Cruise, Being Drawn to Sci-Fi and Technology, Shooting a Dual .50 Caliber Machine Gun and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 16, 2013.

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• When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

  Jeremy Piven

  Worry, Trying, Way

  "Jeremy Piven Talks MR. SELFRDIGE, Similarities Between His Characters Harry Selfridge and Ari Gold, Plus Fans’ Desire to See an ENTOURAGE Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 14, 2013.

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• I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.

  Vera Farmiga

  Mother, Memories, Kids

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Victory, Watches

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Play, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Avid, People

  "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.

  Charlize Theron

  Fun, People, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

  Charlize Theron

  Differences, People, Good Movie

  Source: collider.com

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• I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max."

  Charlize Theron

  Home, Thinking, Mad

  Source: collider.com

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• I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, School, Jail

  Source: collider.com

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• I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!

  Carey Mulligan

  Wall, Party, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make me go to the gym every day, and all that stuff. I don't know. Wherever the good characters are, I tend to try to get a job. It was nice because this was dipping my toe in the action genre. Maybe I might put my foot in, next time.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Nice, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

  David Brooks

  Views, Talking, World

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, Emotions Tell Us What to Value". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

  Morgan Freeman

  Comedian, Funny Stuff, Ifs

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Space, Happens

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Records, Boxes

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

  Jamie Bell

  Thinking, Sometimes, Great Things

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Favors, Chance, Wells

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Gestures, Creation

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

  Lou Reed

  Old Stuff

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• I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Careers, Together, Glue

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

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• Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Milton Rogovin, Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney, Robert Bly (1984). “Windows that open inward: images of Chile”, White Pine Pr

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• If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

  O. Henry

  New York, Feet, Trying

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  People, Gardening, Toothpaste

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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