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Denis Lavant Quotes

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: french
Birth: June 17, 1961

Topics

Training Doubt Acting Stage No Doubt

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

Change People Think Help Know Need

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Jeanette Winterson

Experience Professionalism Accomplish

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

Yourself Doing You Playing Instant

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

People Think You Bad Say Way

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Courage Greatness Takes Certain Base

I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.

Friend Job Fun New York Motorcycle

I believe that children should not be made to work.

Divyanka Tripathi

Work Children Believe I Believe Made

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

Funny Day Dress Child Me Mom

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.

Fun People Young Tattoos Used Angst

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

War America Go Afraid Scotland

My relationship with Christian Slater is like him and Marisa Tomei in 'Untamed Heart.' 'True Romance' was right when I was beginning to become a fan boy of movies. People forget that he's worked with some of the biggest directors in Hollywood. He's worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo.

Relationship Heart Beginning People

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

Work Eating Diet Help You Body

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