It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God's given you this talent, then use it.
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Related I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for... MACKLEMORE I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But ev... DONALD GLOVER If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fin... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren'... TARYN MANNING I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influen... DULQUER SALMAAN Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? AL BOLISKA Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enoug... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know an... CICELY TYSON If you can do it, why you won't do it??? If you have chance why you won't use it? 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I didn't... RYAN GIGGS My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was ... NATASHA LITTLE I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and ... LAUREN POTTER I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really hav... JON FAVREAU Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, ... MORGAN FREEMAN If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling,... TRACEY EMIN That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost yo... IAN WATSON Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but ... MICHAEL CIMINO I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It'... ANDREW BIRD It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use... TERRY O'QUINN It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we... DAVID CHIPPERFIELD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you... SYDNEY POLLACK I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you w... RAY BRADBURY I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pict... CHRIS EVANS To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, o... KATEY SAGAL As a director, you can't stop a guy if he thinks something's hysterical, because if you do, ... EVAN GOLDBERG I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's... EWEN BREMNER I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'... AMY SEDARIS If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&... CARLENE CARTER I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e... AIMEE MANN It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn... FERNANDO TORRES If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. T. BOONE PICKENS I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ... BARRY JENKINS The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the ma... ELAINE PAGELS You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn... PAUL THEROUX I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want t... JACK OSBOURNE You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ... NATE ROBINSON It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much... TOM COLICCHIO Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... GRETCHEN RUBIN I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but peo... GEORGE J. MITCHELL It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's per... GORDON BETHUNE Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I ... J. R. SMITH After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There... D. B. WEISS If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... GUY FIERI I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking ... LONI LOVE And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's pow... ALEKSANDR LEBED I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' i... SELENA GOMEZ I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then ... LAURYN HILL It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is go... THOMAS RHETT In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people. CARRIE COON If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I ho... LAKE BELL My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors... STEPHEN LANG You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizin... GREG FITZSIMMONS Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I... KACEY MUSGRAVES My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want... LINDA LAVIN You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. J. J. ABRAMS Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It... LARRY SMITH If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and activ... RYAN SHECKLER Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w... ELVIS PRESLEY I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a s... EDDIE MARSAN In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan... JOSH TURNER It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no ... ROBERT ORBEN It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use. MARILYN MANSON If you don't think it. You'll never do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't... WADE DAVIS There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you ... BERNHARD SCHLINK You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever s... BLAC CHYNA If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa... VANESSA HUDGENS I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I... PATRICK WHITESELL I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole ... MARK HAMILL Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want... JAKE GYLLENHAAL I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca... WENDY CARLOS I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you ... PEDRO ALMODOVAR It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is ... BIPASHA BASU If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of diff... MICHAEL P. ANDERSON I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling ... CHARLES KIMBROUGH People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. F... TOM HOLLANDER If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting s... FRANK BLACK
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