Steve Zahn Quotes

#1. I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

Anais Nin

#2. I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.

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#3. I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.

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#4. There breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray
As men's are, dead.

Wilfred Owen

#5. You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

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#6. I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

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#7. PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

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#8. I am completely turning into my mom. Me, trying to be stern, is her. Or when I make silly voices. My mom always uses weird voices if she's talking to a kid or a dog. I'm the same person - completely my mother.

Eve

#9. I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

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#10. But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

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#12. What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

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#13. Film is a strange thing.

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#14. You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

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#15. You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

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#16. I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.

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#17. Let me tell you something, planes and kids ... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

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#18. I've done flowers and kicked myself. Flowers are so lame.

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#19. I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"

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#20. Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Jim Holden

#21. Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.

Ron Howard

#22. I'm not a leading guy.

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#23. I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Joe Mantegna

#24. I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

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#25. It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

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#26. I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

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#27. A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Yann Martel

#28. I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Gish Jen

#29. I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

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#30. Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

Gautama Buddha

#31. At the end of the day, Obamacare is bad for America. Washington, D.C., exempted themselves. U.S. senators still do not have to be on Obamacare.

Tim Huelskamp

#32. I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

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#33. Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

Douglas Coupland

#34. I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

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#35. Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.

Kim Dickens

#36. I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

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#37. I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

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#38. I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Delta Goodrem

#39. My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.

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#40. Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.

Anton Du Beke

#41. I'm theater trained.

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#42. I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

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