"You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you."
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"Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out."
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"That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself."
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"I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done."
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"-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt."
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"Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it."
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"Trying to convey an emotion through words is not easy."
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"It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation."
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"I always read the script, try to imagine myself in the role, then decide whether I have anything to give to the part. If you don't feel like that in the beginning, it is not going to go well."
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"I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself."
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"There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try."
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"I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird."
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"When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out."
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"When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out."
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"My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand."
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"The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did."
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"Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in."
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"It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it."
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"I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology."
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"What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?"
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