For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn’t live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he’s not on the stage he’s on a bus getting to the next stage.
BILL CONDONThere’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years – which are the gay movement and the women’s movement – I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, ‘Dreamgirls’ has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn’t change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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