Ezra Miller Quotes
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I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.
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I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.
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Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
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For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.
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I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.
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I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
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I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.
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Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
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We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much scarier. It means that what we do every day matters, which is always a bummer for humans. But it’s a great thing and it’s inspirational and we need to remember that. We have a long way to go and not a long time to get there.
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The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
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I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.
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It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.
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I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.
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Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.
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My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.
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Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.
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I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.
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I genuinely think I have a hugging superpower. I'm starting to master the transformative hug. I have a strange memory ability. There's a lot of information that I don't cognitively know, but that seems to rise up at moments of need. That feels like a superpower. Something that nobody knows about me is that I discovered at a young age that I could sing in two tones. I don't do this in performance, because it's something very special to me. But I've learned that it's a practice that goes back far in time.
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When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
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Life is a grand party.
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I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
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I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
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New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.
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I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.
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There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.
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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
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Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.
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I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.
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Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.
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