Demian Quotes - Page 2

• There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

  Demian Bichir

  Lying, People, Guy

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• Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

  Hermann Hesse

  Able, Way, Certain

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

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• For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Firsts, Bitter, Birth

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Thinking, Half

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

  Demian Bichir

  Thinking, Peers, Stories

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• I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

  Demian Bichir

  Giving, Acting, Actors

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• Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

  Hermann Hesse

  Each Day, World, Remains

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

  Demian Bichir

  Angel, Two, Devil

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• I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

  Demian Bichir

  Long, Intense, Enough

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• I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

  Demian Bichir

  Careers, Firsts, Grew Up

  "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

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• I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

  Demian Bichir

  Brother, Play, Lucky

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• I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Thinking, Moral

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• One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

  Demian Bichir

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "The Young Castro Comes Alive In Soderbergh’s Epic Che Through Actor Demian Bichir’s Performance". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2009.

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• As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

  Demian Bichir

  Actors, Lines, Speak

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• My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

  Demian Bichir

  Brother, Two, Parent

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• I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.

  Demian Bichir

  Girlfriend, New York, Home

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• I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Believe, Men

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• There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

  Demian Bichir

  Beautiful, Acting, Separation

  "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

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• There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

  Demian Bichir

  Moving, Names, Actors

  "Actor Demian Bichir Talks Hollywood, Scarlett, Oscars & Being Latino". Interview with S.J. Main, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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• At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Dying, Saws

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• Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

  Demian Bichir

  Powerful, Epic, Issues

  "The Esquire Nominating Academy Presents: Demián Bichir" by Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. January 8, 2013.

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• When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

  Demian Bichir

  Character, Trying, Littles

  "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

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• When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

  Demian Bichir

  Thinking, Want, Oscars

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• The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

  Demian Bichir

  Real, Secret, Needs

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• Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

  Demian Bichir

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  "Actor Demian Bichir Talks Hollywood, Scarlett, Oscars & Being Latino". Interview with S.J. Main, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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