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"I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview."
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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"14 Awesome Conversation Starters - 1. What do you do for fun? Hobbies, recreation. 2. What are your super powers? Gifts, talents, strengths. 3. Good morning! It's great to see you! 4. What is your story? Tell me about yourself. 5. What brought you to __________? 6. Do you have anything special happening in your life (or your business)? 7. What's the best thing that's happened this week? 8. Are you living your life purpose or still searching for it? 9. What gives you passion and makes you happy to be alive? 10. Do you have any pets? 11. How do you know the host? 12. When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? 13. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? 14. What's next on your bucket list?"
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"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."
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"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."
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"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
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Personal Development
"When having lunch or dinner at a long rectangular table, I prefer to take a middle chair so that I can turn to my left or to my right to make meaningful conversation with the people in attendance. When I have been seated at the very end, it can prove to be difficult to speak, hear, and connect with everyone there. Think ahead, and whenever possible, put yourself in the middle of the action!"
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"During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job."
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Personal Development
"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
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"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them."
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"Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay."
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"I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview."
Conversation
"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
Life
"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
Acting
"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."
Actor
"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."
God
"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."
Life
"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."
People
"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."
Film
"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."
Acting
"Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk."
Education
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