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“Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.”

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Bill Oberst Jr., born on November 21, 1965, is an American film actor known for his roles in numerous independent films and television series. He is recognized for his unique acting style and diverse character choices. more

“The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Wells Lying Audience Know How Depends Lovers Cameras Blind Mood Hungry Feel Good Evening Damn Touched Fickle Blind Date

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.”

Ifs Trying Humans Wells Play Shows Seems Faces Guy Choices Perfect Sea Regret Conflict Cameras Noble Likes Instance Swimming Human Faces I Love Swimming

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.”

People World Want Helping Bits Skins Mundane

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.”

Ifs Years Hard Actors Advice Misery Hard Life

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.”

Knows Trying Shows Dream Jobs Names Who You Are Up Early Stop Dreaming

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.”

Giving Might Happens Asks Winning Rooms Worry Trouble Magic Willing Fool Quiet Exposed Rejected Auditions

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a hacker, I'm an executive but I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome that you want. It turns out to make the coffee, the problem is actually how the beans get turn into green coffee. That's where most of the problems happen.”

Want Problem Happens Turns Security Computer Green Mindset Coffee Backgrounds Outcomes Executives Beans Computer Science Hackers Computer Security

Author:Dave Asprey

“What I'm trying to do is help people understand if for one day they could have the best day ever, where there energy and there focus and everything is super clear and they feel like a great golden god... if you do that one time you know you're capable of it and you can start working towards that. Most people I know have felt like crap without knowing it most of their life. They've never had a wonderful day. Once you have that day, you can learn how to kick more ass repeatedly.”

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Author:Dave Asprey

“Get all the crap out of your diet, just do it right for a week. Then just see what can happen.”

Happens Week Diets Crap Just Do It

Author:Dave Asprey

“I don't like going on stage. Stages mean "nervous" for me.”

Mean Stage Nervous

Author:Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

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