Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
BAZ LUHRMANNTo be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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