Top 49 Bill Condon Quotes
#1. In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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#2. When are you gunna forget that? It was ages ago.'
Only last year, actually. Reggie was convinced he had cancer because he had a black pot on his tongue - he switched to tea bags after the doctor told him it was a tea leaf.
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#3. I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explanation if you're not.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
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#7. Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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#8. I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
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#9. A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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#10. 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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#11. She's an old, close-to-the-ground, jelly-belly woman with bald patches showing through her wispy grey hair. It doesn't seem like she's got a lot going for her, but she's still smiling. Been around the sunflowers too long, I'd say.
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#12. It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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#13. While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
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#14. Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
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#15. 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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#16. Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.
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#17. I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
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#18. Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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#19. There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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#20. No piece of writing is ever finished. It's just due.
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#21. We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
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#22. And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
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#23. Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
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#24. I'll save me money, thanks. Already diagnosed meself, anyway. I'm a cactus.'
'Cactus? Right. Great work, there, Doc. I'm glad you're not my bloody doctor.
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#25. I smile at the phone, wishing Reggie could see me.
'You're alright then, luv? No dramas?'
'Not a one.' I reach the kitchen. 'Thanks for thinking about me.'
'Gotta look after my girl. Only one I got.'
My smile gets even bigger.
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#26. I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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#27. Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
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#28. I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
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#31. My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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#32. I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
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#33. 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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#34. We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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#35. First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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#36. 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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#37. Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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#38. Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
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#39. Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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#40. About two months after this photo was taken I was born and my mum died - clean swap. Caring about someone I never knew doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. This photo means a lot. There must be some invisible mother-daughter wiring that runs from her image in a straight line to my heart.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.
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#44. Hey, Tiffany. If I have to walk - if I have to steal a horse - I'll be there
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#45. 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. 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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#46. But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
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#47. Bull stares into the hazy distance as though the right words are out there somewhere and all he has to do is claim them as his own. Sometimes it gets so quiet in Gungee you can hear conversations from a hundred years ago breathing on a gust of wind.
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#48. Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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#49. Bull spots us and gives his two-thumbs salute, trotting backwards. Imm-pressive! All those years of practice are starting to pay off - his footy is still woeful but he's got the reverse trot down to a fine art.
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