First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
BILL CONDONBut 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.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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The thing I’ve noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you’re not alone.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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You’ve got friends and family. That’s how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we’re scared – no, especially when we’re scared.
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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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
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