Carice van Houten Quotes

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

Carice van Houten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: September 5, 1976

Topics

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All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

Jim Gaffigan

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I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.

Jenova Chen

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'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Meghan O'Rourke

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I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

Anita Brookner

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I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.

Jeff Nichols

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Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Amy Alcott

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I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Amy Chua

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If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

Steve Coogan

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All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'

Sienna Guillory

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Though easy to define, it is important to understand the significance of philanthropy. I believe it is really a state of mind: where one feels empowered and equipped to fill the huge gaps in the existing system.

Shiv Nadar

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I like to be funny and make a girl laugh.

Luke James

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I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the 'old guard' of cuisine are still pioneering so much of the direction of food today.

Johnny Iuzzini

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