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"392 Profession Quotes

To men work is a requirement, to boys work is leisure.

Leisure Work Boys Men
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Being discovered by an audience is an incredibly difficult thing.
Audience Being Difficult Difficult Thing
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Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

Each Each One Feel He
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.

Better Else Good Like
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When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

Camera First Front Get
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
Audience Energy Feed Just
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Comedy Coming Hear Kind
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After Been Better Day
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I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

Am Comedian Could Feel
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

About Could Course Going
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Ignorance sheer Confidence Something about Profession
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Proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.

Am Fortunate Homosexual I Am
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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

About Beautiful BeautifulWomen Cast
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If I do a good job, people won’t care if I am green or have three heads.

Do Good job Care Green
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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

1920s Actress Any Been
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

Actual Ever Life Made
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It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

Acting Age Great Job
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

Actor Always Gets Life
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Able Actor Create Hand
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture Correct Forms Game
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture Create Function Objects
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Different Even He Him
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Am Does Face I Am
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Am Get I Am Older
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

The mathematician Reached Highest rung Human thought
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I go wherever my creativity takes me.
Creativity Go Me Takes
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One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

About Awesome Never Never Quit
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I don't think nothing. I just do my work.

Just Nothing Think Work
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Any Costs Dramatic Failure
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I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

Always Because Challenging Every
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There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Acting Always Becoming Bit
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

My father Running Sensible Wasting time
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Author Cell Chained Every
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Author Good He Like
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Acquaintances Boast Complain Kinds
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I was an elementary school teacher.

Elementary Elementary School School School Teacher
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

Great None Our Past
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I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Artist Egotistical I Can Means
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You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

Musician Play You What
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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Albums Anything Little Me
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I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

About Casting Creative Different
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It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Actor Agree Become Critics
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

About Also Audience Harder
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I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Acting Background Camera Filters
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As a medical doctor and scientist, there are many problems to solve, find one that intrigues you and follow it relentlessly by doing research to answer that question.

Medical doctor Scientist Many problems Intrigues
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Am Audience Better Dead
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