"I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing."

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Source : "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

Benjamin Walker

#Not Happy Quotes

“Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.132, Yale University Press
“Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.”
“Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.”
“The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships.”
“Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.”
“In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement - live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment”
“I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.”

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