"Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them."

-- Steve Toltz

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Burning Quotes

“There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.”
“Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”
“I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.”
“Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.”
“I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.”
“I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.”
“You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.”

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