Top 70 Tom Shadyac Quotes
#1. My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
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#3. I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
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#4. To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.
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#5. the sad fact is that we would rather be distracted than disturbed. But
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#7. I've been called crazy many times before.
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#8. Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
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#9. I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
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#10. The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn't as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that TRANSFORMATION OF BEING, action will naturally follow.
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#11. I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
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#12. When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
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#13. I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.
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#14. Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
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#15. You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
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#16. We started by asking what's wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what's right with it.
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#18. When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
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#19. One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.
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#20. Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.
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#21. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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#22. I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.
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#23. In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.
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#24. Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
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#25. I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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#26. You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
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#27. I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
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#28. Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life's current.
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#29. There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.
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#30. I think true success is intrinsic ... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.
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#31. The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.
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#32. Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs
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#33. There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
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#34. I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.
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#36. Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
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#37. Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'
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#39. I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
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#40. I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.
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#41. If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
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#42. I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.
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#43. Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
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#44. The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
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#45. Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
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#46. TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
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#47. If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.
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#48. I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
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#49. As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away ... I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
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#50. The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
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#51. I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.
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#52. I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.
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#54. What matters is who we are, not who we beat.
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#55. What is it the child knows about happiness, passion, and play, that the adult forgets? Eastern
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#56. If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
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#57. I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
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#58. I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.
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#59. If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
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#60. Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
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#61. I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
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#62. The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
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#63. Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
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#64. Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.
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#65. I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.
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#66. Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.
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#67. I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
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#68. I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.
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#69. Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
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#70. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
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