Christie Laing Quotes
I don't know if it's a actor thing or just growing as an adult, but the best thing I've learned is that everyone wants to do a great job, and everyone wants you to do a great job, too!
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.
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Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
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It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.
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I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
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I don't know if it's a actor thing or just growing as an adult, but the best thing I've learned is that everyone wants to do a great job, and everyone wants you to do a great job, too!
