Stephen Rea Quotes

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

Stephen Rea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 31, 1946

Topics

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I used to work for a non-profit organization where I worked as a mentor and a counselor to first-generation college student and they kept asking me 'What can I read to try to know what I'm about to be in for,' and while I did have some good suggestions, I figured... I don't know that that book is out there, and that's sort of why I had to write it.

Jennine Capó Crucet

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I grew up admiring Phil Mickelson. He loves competing, and he loves the fans' support, similar to me. In terms of my playing style, Steve Stricker and I are similar.

Matt Kuchar

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At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Stefan Zweig

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When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

Roger Deakins

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Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Mason Cooley

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I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

Michael T. Flynn

CareSomeonePurpleLessCould

I'm kind of hard to double, but I did have one guy for a while as my double. I kind of like to do my own stunts, though, because it's just the overall experience. Sometimes you have to step aside when the stuff gets really dangerous, but I feel like sometimes you have to do your own stunts to make the role seem real.

Michael Madsen

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We don't own a TV. My kids are always outdoors.

Jason Momoa

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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

Josef Albers

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There was never any doubt of Christ's priorities.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Pitbull

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