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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 Condon

But you really – I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal.
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Director Fans Thinking
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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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Actors Interesting Thinking
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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Made Phenomena Respect Success
I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. ‘Richard Pryor,’ I wrote for – gosh – over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that.
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Couple Two Years
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People

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.

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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.

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