"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."

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"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."

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John Oldham, American Celebrity

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"One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

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"I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos."

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

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"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

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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."

Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Musician

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"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in."

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"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."

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"You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not."

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"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out."

Time

"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."

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"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."

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"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."

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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

"One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it."

"One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link."

"I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos."

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."

"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."

"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."

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

"The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years."

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"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in."

"You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not."

"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out."

"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."

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"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."