Christopher Eccleston Quotes
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.
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I believe in saving money. I believe in having a house. I believe in keeping things clean. I believe in exercising. Slow and steady is a very good thing for me. It works for me.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
