Quotes by Wes Studi - Page 1

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.
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Irony
Aspects
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It's a dangerous thing to build pipelines underground.
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Dangerous Thing
Underground
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I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.
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Opinions
Representative
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I think that's every actor's dream, actually: to play lead parts.
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Parts
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National sovereignty can only be achieved after self-sovereignty.
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National Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Achieved
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We have a responsibility to Mother Earth to protect it as much as possible.
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Earth
Mother
Mother Earth
Protect
Responsibility
Possible
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I'm proud to have served there for 12 months with Alpha Company of the 39th Infantry.
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Infantry
Alpha
Served
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As a veteran, I am always appreciative when filmmakers bring to the screen stories of those who have served.
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Appreciative
Veteran
Always I Am Who
Served
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I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.
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Cherokee
Expansion
Needed
Cultural
Group
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We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.
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Mankind
Feeds
Steward
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I think that the idea of sharing is something that has been lost in our social conscience, and we need to re-think that. We need to learn a new way.
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Conscience
New Way
Sharing
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I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.
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Consciousness
Oppression
Receiving
Raise
Remind
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At times, I'm thinking negatively, thinking that we don't learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity.
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Negatively
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I tried bull-riding... I wasn't good at all: I don't think I ever got eight seconds anywhere. But then, after that, I discovered acting through community theater.
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Eight
Seconds
Theater
Anywhere
Discovered
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I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.
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Cherokee
Practically
Segregated
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People talk about gangs as if they're something new. But it really isn't that way. The Democratic Party is a gang. The Republican Party is a gang. They're just not in the streets anymore.
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Democratic
Democratic Party
Gang
Party
Republican Party
Something New
Streets
Talk
People New Way
Anymore
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'Dances with Wolves' really started the movement, using subtitles for Lakota Sioux and showing Indians as interesting, complex people - not just the enemy - and giving a lot of unknown Indian actors work.
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Enemy
Giving
Indian
Interesting
Movement
Subtitles
Unknown
Complex
Showing
Sioux
Wolves
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I feel very fortunate that I was able to be cast in roles that showed the humanity, if you will, of usually stereotypical Indian characters that made up a lot of film, like the Pawnee in 'Dances with Wolves.'
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Fortunate
Humanity
Indian
Cast
Characters
Dances
Stereotypical
Wolves
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The western has always been, for me, the bread and butter. It's the easiest place for an identifiable Native American to be able to work. But I do yearn to be known as an actor rather than a 'Native American actor.'
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Bread
Native
Native American
Western
Work Always Me
Butter
Easiest
Work Me Always
Yearn
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At times, you're welcome, depending on what's being cast. 'Dances with Wolves' - they wanted authentic-looking Indians in the film, and so they got it. The same was true with 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Geronimo.'
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Film
Welcome
Cast
Dances
Depending
Indians
Last
Wolves
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Having watched 'The Lone Ranger,' I asked my dad, 'You think we can be on TV like that guy?' He said, 'Probably not. You have to be 6 feet and blond to work in TV and movies.' I said, 'But what about that guy? Jay Silverheels?'
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Feet
Lone
Lone Ranger
Asked
Blond
Watched
Jay
Ranger
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When I saw the 'Geronimo' script and was offered the part, it was overwhelming in that it brought back all of those feelings - made me feel what it's like to be in those shoes, the same shoes Geronimo himself might have been in.
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Overwhelming
Offered
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I can be a teddy bear, but more people tend to see me as the other side of the coin, and that has to do with casting, more Iago than Hamlet. But I don't play villains; I play people doing the right thing for the circumstances and time.
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Casting
Circumstances
Doing The Right Thing
Right Thing
Teddy
Time Me People
Bear
Coin
Hamlet
More People
Tend
The Right Thing
Villains
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In the '70s, with movies like 'Little Big Man,' westerns began to have a little different flavor, and I think casting people and filmmakers began to realize, 'Hey, maybe we can get a little more authentic in terms of who we cast here.' That kind of opened up the gates.
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Gates
Hey
Authentic
Began
Cast
Filmmakers
Opened
Terms
Westerns
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I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we're always involved in fighting something. It's tiresome.
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Failure
Corporations
Fighting
Gas
Indian
Involved
Natural Gas
Oil
Seems
Soil
Tiresome
Large
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One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.
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Arbiter
Truth Believe Lie
Believing
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We, as Indian tribes, should be able to prosecute non-Indians on tribal lands. But on Indian land, we have no ability to prosecute anyone but another Indian. American Indians having status as a foreign nation is good for us, but it's not good in some ways if we don't have the jurisdictional power that the federal government claims.
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Claims
Federal Government
Tribes
Good Power Government
American Indians
Power Good Government
Indians
Lands
Status
Tribal
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