Quotes by Christian Slater - Page 2

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.
Christian Slater / Actor
Certain
Games
Levels
Fairly
Certain Level
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I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.
Christian Slater / Actor
Computer
Fun
Games
Sitting
Stations
Thinking
Branch
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I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
Christian Slater / Actor
Vacation
Direct
Epidemics
Laughter
Play
Time Done Never
Epidemic
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My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.
Christian Slater / Actor
Levels
Mistake
Ridiculous
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I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.
Christian Slater / Actor
Nicholson
Jack
Jack Nicholson
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It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?
Christian Slater / Actor
Matter
Who We Are
Window
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Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.
Christian Slater / Actor
Wise
Regret
Too Much
Wise Person
Later
Says
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I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.
Christian Slater / Actor
Operate
Vacuum
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After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.
Christian Slater / Actor
Choices
Do You Know
Heart
Outrageous
Untamed
Allow
Image
Rule
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The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'
Christian Slater / Actor
Clinging
Legs
Please
Me Remember Father
Commercial
First Job
Father Me Remember
Performance
Saying
Whenever
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I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be a nightmare if it were the other way around. But it's sometimes a little disheartening.
Christian Slater / Actor
Disheartening
Nightmare
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My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.
Christian Slater / Actor
Applause
Casting
Hooked
Backstage
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The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.
Christian Slater / Actor
Dangerous
Doors
Exposed
Hacked
Internet
Phenomenal
Scary
Opens
Tool
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
Christian Slater / Actor
Done
Littles
My Time
Past
Substance
In The Past
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I do have a Twitter account, and there's a woman at my agency who got that all set up for me. I don't know how many followers I have. It's not one of those things I check on a regular basis.
Christian Slater / Actor
Agency
Followers
Me Woman Know
Account
Basis
Check
Regular Basis
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I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
Christian Slater / Actor
Blown Away
Games
Progress
Today
Continually
Detail
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That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.
Christian Slater / Actor
Opportunity
Artist
Responsibility
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Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
Christian Slater / Actor
Book
Finished
Gains
Scripts
Weight
Physically
Mentally
Books
Churchill
Read
Emotionally
Gain
Gain Weight
Obviously
Well
Prepare
Role
Script
Soon
Winston
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There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Christian Slater / Actor
Deeper
Littles
London
Performing
Soul
Theatre
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If I'm backed into a corner, the first thing that comes to mind is the robot from Forbidden Planet. But that could be me trying to be kitschy, cool, and cultural, because the real answer is R2D2.
Christian Slater / Actor
Forbidden
Cool Mind Me
Backed
Corner
Cultural
First Thing
The First Thing
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
Christian Slater / Actor
Disregard
Factual
Hollywood
May
Okay
Thinking
Tradition
Turning
Regardless
Tends
Twisting
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The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.
Christian Slater / Actor
Movie
Character
Mind
Play
Stage
Life Time Movies
Exactly
Frame
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Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.
Christian Slater / Actor
Teen
Crush
Heartbroken
Honored
Touched
Me People Situation
Poster
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It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
Christian Slater / Actor
Book
Comic
Dark
Real
Real Story
Right Kind
Seemed
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Tony Scott was one of the best directors Ive ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and peoples lives are sometimes difficult.
Christian Slater / Actor
Directors
Energy
Guy
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Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.
Christian Slater / Actor
Devastated
Great Guy
Scott
Tony
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The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.
Christian Slater / Actor
Atari
Meeting
Videogames
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The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of video games. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.
Christian Slater / Actor
Dark
Fun
Games
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My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.
Christian Slater / Actor
Entertainment Industry
Exposed
Show Business
Time Family Business
Backstage
Family Time Business
Inner
Theaters
Workings
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I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.
Christian Slater / Actor
Doubt
Higher
Higher Power
Moments
Religious
Religious Person
Life Power Believe
Looking
Had
Angels
Through
Certainly
Definitely
Either
Guided
Means
Helped
My Life
Some
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The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
Christian Slater / Actor
Destruction
Mass
Mass Destruction
Bomb
Weapon
Small Group
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It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.
Christian Slater / Actor
Survived
Amazes
Work Me Look
Work Look Me
Gotten
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Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.
Christian Slater / Actor
Time Me People
Onto
Teenagers
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An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
Christian Slater / Actor
Bills
Capable
Entitled
Take Care
Great Me People
Great Me Care
Equals
Great Deal
Last Few Years
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Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
Christian Slater / Actor
Frank
Roots
Great Always Me
Great Mother Always
Backstage
Dracula
Great Father Me
Lookout
Rat
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The Kennedys have always represented a certain royal quality, Camelot, and they represent a great deal of integrity and strength and perseverance; faith in the future of America and where we could go. What a tragedy it was that the carpet was pulled out from under our feet.
Christian Slater / Actor
Feet
Integrity
Perseverance
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The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.
Christian Slater / Actor
Keys
Long
Talking
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I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.
Christian Slater / Actor
Insecure
Nervous
Dealing
Edge
Go Away
More And More
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It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.
Christian Slater / Actor
Creator
Work World Your
App
Work World Parents
Hide
Intentionally
Invent
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'Pump Up the Volume' was a film and character that I really responded to. That was a movie about a guy trying to take down the establishment using a ham radio. I feel 'Mr. Robot' has a similar value. This show is about taking down a global empire. I was an anarchist then. I'm getting to be an anarchist again.
Christian Slater / Actor
Movie
Anarchist
Character
Establishment
Film
Guy
Ham
Radio
Volume
Again
Empire
Global
Pump
Robot
Similar
Taking
Value
Using
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Actors sometimes immerse themselves into it so deeply that the line between who they are and their character can become blurred. For me, I think it's just about getting clearer on my whole life and who I am in order to make it possible for me to play whatever character is presented to me at a particular time.
Christian Slater / Actor
Life Time Character
Blurred
Clearer
Immerse
Presented
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It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of wall, to look at ourselves and examine who we are and just get deeper insights into what makes us human beings. Anything that could possibly prevent that in our near future horrifies me to no end.
Christian Slater / Actor
Artist
Obvious Things
Wall
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'Heathers' was probably the first time when I started to notice that people were opening doors for me and giving me tables at restaurants, regardless of what I was wearing. A whole world opened up to me that was shocking and weird and different, and I enjoyed it, and, you know, I took great advantage of it at times.
Christian Slater / Actor
Advantage
Doors
Restaurants
Shocking
Tables
Time Great World
Great Advantage
Notice
Opened
Regardless
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My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'
Christian Slater / Actor
Casting
Hooked
Opera
Soap
Life Mother Me
Life Me Live
Applauded
Immediately
Skateboard
Soap Opera
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