#cause

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#audition #ball #because #behind #eight

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#because #i #just #me #mentioned

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. ↗

— Larry Niven

#because #cut #direction #embedded #field

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#alienate #audience #because #controversial #deal

Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#away #because #complicated #difficult #feel

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#both #business #businesses #competitive #corporate

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#because #day #fleeting #gone #happiness

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least! ↗

— Chuck Norris

#adopt #against #aim #atrocious #because

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley. ↗

— Douglass North

#because #berkeley #did #feeling #go

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war. ↗

— Douglass North

#become #beliefs #communist #else #everybody