Tony Goldwyn Quotes

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• Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Television, Moral

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back

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• If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level

  Tony Goldwyn

  Levels, Ifs

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• Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Emotion, Honest

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• My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.

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  Daughter, Mother, Communication

  "Actor-director-producer Tony Goldwyn". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 6, 2013.

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• We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Black And White, People, World

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, One Thing, Seems

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

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• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

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  Weed, Smart, Tv Shows

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patric Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"

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  Nice, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.

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  Dark, Complicated

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen

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  Decisions You Make, Odds, Matter

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• Life is a very emotional experience.

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  Emotional, Life Is

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• I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

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  Character, Interesting, Want

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• I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

  Tony Goldwyn

  People, Different, Television

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

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  Names, Hollywood, Detroit

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• I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

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  Thinking, Kind, Quiet

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• My sex scenes with @kerrywashington are f****** hot!

  Tony Goldwyn

  Sex, Hot, Scene

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• One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

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  Talking, People, African American

  Source: collider.com

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• It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

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  Two, Back And Forth, Protagonists

  Source: collider.com

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• Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.

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  Thinking, Race, July

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

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  Thinking, Lazy, Asking

  Source: collider.com

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• Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

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  Punishment, Innocent Person, People

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• I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

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  Credit, Enough, Given

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• My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

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  Mother, New York, Fabulous

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

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  Long, Political, Way

  "Actor-director-producer Tony Goldwyn". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 6, 2013.

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