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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.


Samuel L. Jackson

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SEBASTIAN STAN Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things tha...
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JOHN CARMACK I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, cli...
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BABYFACE Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the re...
YANN MARTEL I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help...
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CATIE CURTIS You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All th...
COLIN FARRELL More power to that. I love just hearing Samuel L. Jackson blurt out the F-word every five seconds.
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BOB SEGER Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.
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ROGER CORMAN You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
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ALAN FURST Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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SAMUEL BECKETT I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
SAMUEL BARNETT I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings...
SAMUEL BARNETT In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broad...
SAMUEL BARNETT With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you c...
SAMUEL BARNETT I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l...
SAMUEL BARNETT The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly reb...
SAMUEL BARNETT My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind m...
SAMUEL BARNETT I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I...
SAMUEL BARNETT Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to b...
SAMUEL BARNETT I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
SAMUEL BARNETT I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
SAMUEL BARNETT Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
SAMUEL BARNETT Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and...
SAMUEL BARNETT Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin...
SAMUEL BARNETT I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
SAMUEL BARNETT I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to d...
SAMUEL BARBER I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York R...
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