"I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing."
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"It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make."
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"Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M."
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"For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out."
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"No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins."
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"For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up."
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"I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun."
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"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?"
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"I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is."
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"As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can."
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"My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness."
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"First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it."
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"I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money."
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"Why try to pursue what is completed?"
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"I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense."
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"Are you trying to be as human as you can be?"
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"I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle."
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"BlogHer would not exist...if we hadn't made a commitment that the only way to work with women in an entirely new record-breaking technological environment was to listen as hard as we could and try to deliver services that they might be interested in."
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"We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with."
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"I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more."
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