Christopher Eccleston Quotes
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I never actually said 'Ooh, you dirty rat.'
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Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.
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I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
