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"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
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"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
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"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
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"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
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"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
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"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
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"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
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"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
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"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"
Competition
"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."
Travel
"I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction."
Life
"I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me."
Love
"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
Power
"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."
People
"I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it."
Education
"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
Children
"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
Theatre
"If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."
Life
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