Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues. - Daniel Day-Lewis

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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

Acting, Monologues, People

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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Enriching, Landscape, Life Is, Single

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

Cast, Easy, Film, Fog, Together

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

Decision, Hindsight, Listened, Made, Wrong, Younger

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

Feelings, Like, Make, Storm, Teeth, Tucking

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Simon Brett

The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.

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Seneca the Younger

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

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John Brandon

I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it. " I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!

Impact, Like, Read, Thinking, Write, Writing

Braden Kelley

Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation.

Creativity, Innovation, Input, Output

Bill Murray

Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families. . . the look of absolute horror. He's going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It's just total horror, and the camera's still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, "Anything else, Bud?"

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