Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
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Related I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I a... RACHEL ROY But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going ... KRISTEN STEWART It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's... LAURA FRASER I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, ... STEVEN WRIGHT Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay,... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on ... HOLLIE CAVANAGH When I'm not on stage, I'm kind of shy. If you see me and I don't say much, don't th... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not g... NATASHA LEGGERO I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what... JACK MCBRAYER I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get i... STEPHANIE MILLS I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on. VICTORIA LEGRAND I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actua... ROBERT SMITH I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he know... DON RICKLES People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't ... IGGY AZALEA In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All Th... PETER ACKROYD Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don... VICTORIA BECKHAM What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' wa... KATIE ASELTON I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in ord... HEIDI KLUM I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. ... MUHAMMAD ALI Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite ... MICHELLE PHAN I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm ... ALLISON WILLIAMS I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'... SIA It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don'... REBECCA HALL If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - per... CARLES PUIGDEMONT What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character... F. GARY GRAY When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this f... TRENT REZNOR Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'... TERRY PRATCHETT I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets peopl... DYLAN MORAN I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I... GARY LINEKER In real life, you don't know what's going to happen to you, so why would your character know... ERIN RICHARDS People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be ... TROY POLAMALU It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'Y... GRACE PARK I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr... PARKER STEVENSON I have to shave every day. If I don't, it's sort of like going to bed without brushing your ... BRITTANY SNOW You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a... MAGGIE CAREY My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared... GINA GERSHON To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I... JENNIFER COOLIDGE When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, ... ERIC JEROME DICKEY I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to d... GEOFFREY BEENE When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how t... JOHN MADDEN I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I ... JULIE CHEN For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don... JEFF BRIDGES It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about ... BETH DITTO I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet... TRAVIS FIMMEL When I'm in a bikini or at a photo shoot, I'm real confident. But, if I'm in a group of ... GEORGIA SALPA I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I... PATRICK WHITESELL No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or i... AVRIL LAVIGNE I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good fo... PAUL DANO I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's e... DANIEL CORMIER I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi... STEVEN WRIGHT On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to ... JIMMY FALLON I'm always thinking I'm messing up. I did a lot of classes. I can't stand being on stage... TRAVIS FIMMEL I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the ... ZACH BRAFF I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about wo... DANIELLE SCHNEIDER I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying... ELLSWORTH KELLY Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an... WASHED OUT I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really op... DAN AUERBACH Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice ... SARAH PAULSON I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't wan... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get ... GUY FIERI Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in... ELAYNE BOOSLER When you think Tink, you should just think of me as that around-the-way girl - relatable and honest.... TINK I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up. LARRY KING I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going t... SAM BRADFORD It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I stil... CHRISTOPHER MELONI Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it'... BROOKE SHIELDS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't ... RADHA MITCHELL 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, eve... ELLEN MUTH I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... KEVIN GATES I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jenni... MISSY ELLIOTT I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-c... GARY VAYNERCHUK My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also... HALEY JOEL OSMENT Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm... NENE LEAKES When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I do... PATTI STANGER I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop a... JOANNE WOODWARD Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what... SHIA LABEOUF If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th... DEBORAH MOGGACH I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going o... NATE DIAZ Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus,... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in t... ASHLEY OLSEN I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. ERIC RIPERT When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. ... ENRICO COLANTONI I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must. PATRICIA CLARKSON Everyone's been through hell to get where they are, and I'm not gonna let anybody talk down ... ROMAN REIGNS I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going ... ANTONY BEEVOR I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... ARUNDHATI ROY As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'... OONA CHAPLIN Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I c... MICHAEL HANEKE I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,'... BASSEM YOUSSEF I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances th... JOHN RIDLEY
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PHILIP ROTH It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con... PHILIP ROTH Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an... PHILIP ROTH When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. PHILIP ROTH To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth... PHILIP ROTH Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form... PHILIP ROTH I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I a... PHILIP ROTH The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. PHILIP ROTH Ich habe sie Erfahrung gemacht, dass die Menschen aus vielen verschiedenen Schichten von Geheimnisse... VERONICA ROTH . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to b... GENEEN ROTH When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe tha... GENEEN ROTH You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are... GENEEN ROTH Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is for... PHILIP ROTH Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as... VERONICA ROTH I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both. VERONICA ROTH My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a centu... PHILIP ROTH If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation. MARK ROTH As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a mor... 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VERONICA ROTH But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe... VERONICA ROTH I love you" I say. "I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon. VERONICA ROTH Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I r... VERONICA ROTH The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. VERONICA ROTH If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him. VERONICA ROTH The person you became with her is worth being. VERONICA ROTH Change, like healing, takes time. VERONICA ROTH You're not very nice," I say, grinning. "You're one to talk." "Hey, I could be nice if I t... VERONICA ROTH I'll say it one last time: Be brave. VERONICA ROTH She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done f... VERONICA ROTH I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. VERONICA ROTH I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last. VERONICA ROTH There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y... TIM ROTH Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. PHILIP ROTH When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was l... ANDREA ROTH He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scene... ANDREA ROTH All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy. ANDREA ROTH We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, cert... ANDREA ROTH Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going t... ELI ROTH Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w... PHILIP ROTH Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-ge... ELI ROTH You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes ... TIM ROTH 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. I... ELI ROTH In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ... VERONICA ROTH I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice." "What Choice?" "Daunt... VERONICA ROTH