Priyanka Chopra
Actress
"I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema."
Genre quotes
Genre
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Joseph Morgan
Actor
"Vampires are a genre now."
Ruskin Bond
Author
"Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre."
Bruce Campbell
Actor
"Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down."
Theo James
Musician
"What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message."
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"Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote."
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"I love mixing up my genres."
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"As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!"
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"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
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"I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me."
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"I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre."
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"I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre."
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"Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love."
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"I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it."
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"Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled."
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"It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre."
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"I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too."
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"Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been."
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"I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them."
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"Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire."
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"Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre."
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"The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me."
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"I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie."
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