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" People are sheepish when they approach me. "
Ryan Phillippe
Approach
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People
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" Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous! "
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" Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. "
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" You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money. "
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" There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor. "
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" I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. "
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" I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues. "
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" I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. "
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" My sisters are my favorite people on earth. "
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" I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. "
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" I learn so much more in an ensemble movie. "
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" Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them. "
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Enjoy
Them
" The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me. "
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Seen
You
Something
" It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. "
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Nice
You
Want
" What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive. "
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Jealous
Competitive
More
" To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me. "
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Appealing
Me
Involved
" Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. "
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Way
Break
Finding
" There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. "
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Stories
Found
Great
" I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. "
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Always
Brother
Three
" Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. "
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Business
Find
You
" To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. "
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White
Story
Boy
" Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. "
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Best
Look
Loved
" I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. "
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Landscape
Respond
Different
" But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. "
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Ideas
Want
People
" I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. "
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Proud
Want
I Am
" There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to. "
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Care
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" The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically. "
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" Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. "
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" I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again. "
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" At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. "
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Place
Actor