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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More Bill Condon Quotes
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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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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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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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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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