Toni Collette Quotes

When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they're featured in the movie.

Toni Collette

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CharacterLookPersonMatterNever

A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.

Andy Dunn

FirePeopleForestNeverCompany

Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head.

Robert LaSardo

CreativityWaitingWorldWeekendYou

People I get the most star-struck by are people I've sort of grown up with watching. So, for example, working with Debby Ryan, when I first met her, I was a bit nervous and a bit star-struck because I had grown up watching her TV shows on the Disney Channel.

Angourie Rice

PeopleNervousFirstWatchingUp

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Ang Lee

StarsActingBeyondRiskImageJust

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

Soccer Mommy

LonelinessPeopleMeMomentsCome

If you are a plane-spotter, and you are interested in the history of a particular aircraft, you know there are many documents publicly available: registration papers and airworthiness certificates from the FAA. You can also get flight data from the FAA.

Trevor Paglen

HistoryDataYouFlightKnowGet

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

Mike Love

PositiveMusicThinkPhilosophyBeen

At its height, Guantanamo's population of alleged combatants swelled to nearly 800.

Michael Paterniti

HeightPopulationNearlyAlleged

Four is actually my lucky number.

Chloe Kim

LuckyNumberFourActually

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Chris Wooding

WorkMeProblemWantNextPretty

Between Trump's election and Brexit, there were all sorts of opinions coming out of the woodwork that I thought had died out a long time ago. I was like, 'What's the point?' All we do is bad things. The history of humanity is the history of people exploiting each other.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

HistoryTimePeopleThoughtHumanity

I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

Brooke Elliott

LiveNew YorkYearPlaceSometimes

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