Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making.

Stellan Skarsgard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: June 13, 1951

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Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Robert Southwell

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I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.

John Liu

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Legend has it that when Franco's troops crushed Catalonia in 1939, relegating it for the next thirty-five years to abuse and neglect, one of his generals was asked what more he could possibly want now that he had Barcelona.

Michael Paterniti

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I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.

Jay IDK

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You learn something every time you make a mistake.

Joss Whedon

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The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

Doug Larson

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There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

Wole Soyinka

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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander

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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Marilyn Monroe

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I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Morgan Spurlock

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