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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More Bill Condon Quotes
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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I do think that’s so much a part of what being a director is – in working with actors – to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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