Michael Pitt Quotes

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

Michael Pitt

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1981

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I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Jim James

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I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

Jill Scott

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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

Jeremy Northam

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I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

John Slattery

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My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.

John Trudell

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When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S.

Sonita Alizadeh

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A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

Marvin Bower

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I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

Joss Whedon

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I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Jason Blum

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No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

Jason Calacanis

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Oh, I'm terrible at travel.

Johnny Vegas

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Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires.

Diane Hendricks

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