"You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that.""

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Jeremy Renner

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“With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting your parents and - with this kind of responsibility to protect them. That's what makes the children of Holocaust survivors strange.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.19, Random House
“Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.”
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
“I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry."”
“Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lydia". "Beetlejuice", www.imdb.com. 1988.
“If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.”
“I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.”

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