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I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
Bela Lugosi
Supernatural
Like
Person
Roles
Quit
Just
Interesting
Play
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
Bela Lugosi
Degree
Emerged
Studied
Budapest
Academy
Years
Arts
Theatrical
Four
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Bela Lugosi
Death
Lover
Final
Triumphant
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Bela Lugosi
State
Were
Than
Managers
Exploited
Capitalist
Less
Actor
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
Bertha von Suttner
Happiness
Peace
Rights
Live
Individual
Developed
Truths
Eternal
Created
Right
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Bertha von Suttner
Humanity
Destruction
Mind
Society
Constantly
Drives
Almost
Instinct
Annihilation
Self-Preservation
Subconsciously
Methods
Refined
Human
Against
Acting
Human Mind
Rebelling
Human Society
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
Bertha von Suttner
Sometimes
Changes
Slowly
Brought
About
Indirect
Nobel
Social
Social Changes
Means
Believed
I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.
Bertha von Suttner
Service
Peace
Book
Better
Thought
Could
Write
League
Ideas
Most
How
Effectively
Than
Trying
Wanted
Form
Story
Which
Should
There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
Boris Kodjoe
Life
Future
Me
You
My Life
Some
Point
Take
Had
Make
Because
Been
Repeating
Wallow
Going
Just
Where
Decide
Happened
Happening
Choice
Certain
Certain Point
Keep
Nicole
The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.
Boris Kodjoe
Time
Single
Paris
Had
New
Modeling
York
New York
Place
Really
Whole
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
Boris Kodjoe
Secular
See
More
Self
Performance
Involved
Artists
Themselves
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
Boris Kodjoe
Saying
History
Master
Other
Back
Knowing
Gospel
Without
Came
Times
Artists
The History Of
Where
Communicating
Themselves
View
Each
Differently
Slavery
I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
Boris Kodjoe
Me
Sunset
People
Looking
Sugar
Hunk
Would
Brown
Something
Could
Take
Off
Wanted
After
Act
Show
Show People
Whole
Riding
Away
Play
Thing
I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
Boris Kodjoe
Me
Man
Partner
Once
Be A Man
Had
Knew
Know
Attract
Person
Going
Just
Who
Grown
Deserved
I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
Boris Kodjoe
Myself
Had
Study
Educate
Acting
Basically
I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
Boris Kodjoe
Life
My Life
First
Booth
Never
Had
First Of All
Gospel
Heard
Germany
Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
Boris Kodjoe
Love
Hurt
People
Problems
Everybody
Backs
Fond
Through
Obstacles
Because
Issues
Goes
Just
Just Because
Turn
Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
Boris Kodjoe
Life
You
Happy
Will
Free
Past
Own
Back
Once
Embrace
Haunt
Come
Because
Deal
Coming
Person
Pace
Loving
Your
Ignore
Keep
Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
Christoph Waltz
Today
You
Tomorrow
Something
Open
Make
Up
Very
Hold
Ordinary
Might
Sparkle
Special
Grasp
Keep
Elevate
Champagne
There is one thing I do miss in L.A. I love autumn.
Christoph Waltz
Love
Autumn
One Thing
Miss
Thing
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
Christoph Waltz
Character
You
Beard
Tell
Characters
Kind
About
Something
Could
Self-Confidence
Know
Talk
Years
Years Ago
Timid
Just
Refuse
Grey
Little
Us
Asked
Your
Now
Play
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
Christoph Waltz
You
Extraordinary
Would
Constitute
Between
Because
Always
In-Between
Ordinary
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
Christoph Waltz
Result
Reward
Beginning
Take
New
Also
Praise
Just
Process
Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
Christoph Waltz
Life
Challenge
Father
Become
Like
Becoming
Making
Hard
Actor
It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.
Christoph Waltz
Appreciation
Wave
Way
Easy
Misplaced
Feel
Tidal
Coming
Your
Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.
Christoph Waltz
Life
You
Think
Else
Everything
Later
Way
Would
Take
Never
Had
Like
Were
Different
Experienced
Happens
Which
Much
Granted
Different Way
Thing
Appreciate
Appreciated
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