Quotes by Jason Schwartzman - Page 1

I have never stopped playing music.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
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You can learn a lot of things from being in movies.
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Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
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Do You Know
Illogical
Logic
Mean
Plus
Equals
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But I'd have to say Young Frankenstein, which I can watch forever.
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Frankenstein
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I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.
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Habit
Restaurants
Stuff
Creature
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Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.
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New York
Every Step
Steps
Thinking
Detour
Direction
Whereas
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What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.
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Inspiration
People
Thinking
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Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.
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Combination
Planning
Unexpected
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I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.
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Book
Interviews
Reader
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It was always hard for me to really make friends, but that's just because I like to stay home.
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Home
Hard
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I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.
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Effort
Harder
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Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.
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Dark
Depressing
Hate
Depressed
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When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Daughter
Born
Firsts
Way
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I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Believe
Choices
Right Thing
Thinking
The Right Thing
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In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Dots
Ends
Indescribable
Three
Describe
Period
Sentence
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Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Bridges
Fall
Writing
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I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Actors
Admire
Done
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I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Attitude
Thinking
Waiting
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Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
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Dating
Awkward
Constant
Moments
Real
Strangeness
Thinking
Real Thing
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At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.
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Drummer
Hate
Mail
Thinking
Cover
Garner
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Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.
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Bells
Clear
Exquisite
Mean
Precise
Beautifully
Bell
Steve
Steve Martin
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I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Character
Ideas
Thinking
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I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Being Alone
Bonding
Investigation
Loneliness
Thinking
Connection
Just As Much
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What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.
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Complicated
Moments
Needs
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Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
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Eye
Focused
People
Showbiz
Trying
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I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.
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Agent
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I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.
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Agents
Band
Headshots
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In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Journey
Accidents
Cities
Hiking
Impossible
Turns
Unexpected
Bump
City
Walk
Overhear
Plan
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It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Chamber
Disappear
Eye
Frozen
People
Public Eye
Thinking
Someplace
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I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.
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Cards
Trying
Writing
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I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.
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Moon
People
Play
Drums
Funny People Always
Funny Person
Play Drums
Steve
Steve Martin
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There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Car
Communication
Communicate
People
Transportation
Instantly
Telephone
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But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Moving On
New York
Planning
Things Happen
Thinking
Years
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Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Actors
Direct
Play
Writing
Ultimately
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The film industry is an awkward business - you get together with strangers, get to know them very well and then you make a lot of promises to see each other and you don't. Maybe that is like a real family.
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Awkward
Promise
Real
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As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Cities
Isolated
Layout
Loneliness
Lonely
Los Angeles
Radio
Everywhere
Angeles
Drive
Los
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I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Dating
Games
Real
Thinking
Best Game People
Connect
Real Thing
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I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff
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Guitar
Mean
Shopping
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I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.
Jason Schwartzman / Actor
Instruments
Restaurants
Shopping
Great Look People
Guitars
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You get to a certain age, and you feel like you know who you are, and how you fit into the world, and how the world sort of perceives you. And you get pretty set in that. And then things can happen that can turn it upside.
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Age
Like You
World
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After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.
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Band
Elements
Feelings
Fine
Harder
Touring
Where Me Never
Definitely
Experiencing
Quit
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Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
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Dinner
Dinner Party
Insulting
Inviting
Worry
Opposite
Jeremy
Thinks
Whereas
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It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this thing that maybe just won't ever exist?" I always think, God, acting is so much easier. At least for acting you have the source material already.
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Long
Thinking
Writing
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I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.
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Exposed
Heartbroken
Chance Me People
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It's not uncommon to hear people say that the re-entry into their lives is very hard. A lot of actors say that the hardest thing about working is not working, because you go from one of the most structured environments in the world to a place of no structure. Maybe that's why you see someone go from movie to movie to movie.
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Actors
People
World
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