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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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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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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The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.
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If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.
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My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
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When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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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.
