Richard Corliss Quotes

The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters' souls, was our generation's anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age.

Richard Corliss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1944 - April 23, 2015

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If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.

Jillian Hervey

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If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.

Jenny Lawson

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Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.

John Gokongwei

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I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Megan Fox

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It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

Stephen Frears

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Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Stuart Wilde

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No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, 'You're dumb!' over and over. That's not what Broadway's about.

Trey Parker

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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Rita Dove

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My football career was so filled with energy and impactful, as a University of Miami player and the things I did in Canada, that I left a good mark. I left a good impression.

Rohan Marley

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United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

Rush Limbaugh

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I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Mike Nichols

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