Unusual Quotes
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Usual Quotes
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.
Will Kemp
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn`t have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don`t have what it takes";
Clare Luce
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I`m at the point now where I know I`m doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I`m not in the box. I don`t want to make it too easy for people and I don`t want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. I f...
Nicolas Cage
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I`m so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it`s unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.
Scarlett Johansson
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People always comment about my hair. It is unusual for a man my age to have so much.
Christopher Walken
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Regarding his commitment to directing Jarhead (2005) without a personal soldiering background: "This is new territory to me, but I hadn`t spent two days in American suburbia when I directed American Beauty (1999). I only knew the script had an unusual and...
Sam Mendes
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The relationships between the characters were amazing, and we`ve actually forged real-life friendships as a result of working in the same studio. I think we all felt this show was something special. Very unusual for a medium where we do our parts individu...
Steven Jay Blum
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[on making "Rose Red" (2002) (mini)] I wasn`t allowed to do anything quirky, or to have an interesting accent. So the challenge lay in making her as interesting as I could without making her unusual. And that was hard!
Melanie Lynskey
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[Morocco] "When I finished V for Vendetta (2005), I went for a few days as sort of a birthday present for myself. I went out into the desert and an amazing storm was taking place, which is so unusual in the desert. I ended up in a tent with the six strang...
Natalie Portman
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As an actor, you find yourself in many unusual places.
Ian McDiarmid
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It`s not a normal voice. It doesn`t fit into people`s preconceptions about what a woman`s voice should sound like. My mom doesn`t think I have an unusual voice, though. I`m sure it`s helped me get some roles. But Chasing Amy (1997), I almost didn`t get. T...
Joey Adams
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When I was growing up, I always had the feeling I was dropped from somewhere else. That`s how I was treated at school in Iceland where the kids used to call me china girl" and everybody thought I was unusual because I looked Chinese."
Bjork Guomundsdottir
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It`s like I`ve experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who`s a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It`s really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in li...
Fefe Dobson
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We love unusual names in the family. - Regarding the birth of Moses, her second grandchild.
Blythe Danner
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It`s the sign of a mis-spelt youth - joking about the unusual spelling of his first name
Gorden Kaye
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On Thelma & Louise after her nomination for best actress, 1992, "I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the o...
Susan Sarandon
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[on Sam Peckinpah] Sam is, I think, a great filmmaker. Of course, he`s his own worst enemy. Sam is an unusual human being, and he needs to be treated like an unusual human being. He can create an atmosphere, whether he`s drunk, sober, pissed off or in a r...
James Coburn
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[on Sam Peckinpah] Sam is, I think, a great filmmaker. Of course, he`s his own worst enemy. Sam is an unusual human being, and he needs to be treated like an unusual human being. He can create an atmosphere, whether he`s drunk, sober, pissed off or in a r...
James Coburn
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Right from the beginning of my work, I wanted to capture a mass audience. And I love the unusual: you never see dancing villains. For me, there`s a fine line between comedy and drama; so it`s not just played for laughs. There`s a little romance in this st...
Stephen Chow
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Hollywood didn`t know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
Nicolas Cage
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The easiest way to make sure a movie is successful is to make a traditional movie very well. If you make a slightly unusual movie or [don`t] exactly follow the rules as everyone sees them, then you get in trouble or, like with Apocalypse, wait 20 years to...
Francis Ford Coppola
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[from the eulogy he gave at Graham Chapman`s memorial service] And I guess that we`re all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, a man of such capability and kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now, so suddenly, be spirited away at t...
John Cleese
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Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn`t seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
Michael Apted
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Amanda Gunter
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You can`t just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
Elia Kazan
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Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
Elliott Carter
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While most merchandise comes with a warranty it doesn`t cover theft, it doesn`t cover loss by unusual means, it doesn`t cover damage.
Annette McEvoy
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When we can accommodate those, we try, ... It`s unusual to move a time, but these were special circumstances. We can hit SportsCenter a little bit later.
Dave Brown
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What makes Seattle unusual is that it`s one of three great theater towns in the United States.
David Armstrong
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What is unusual is them talking about making changes - which I think shows which side is dominant.
Arb Campbell
