Charlotte Riley Quotes
I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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If the success of the Bush presidency hinges on the outcome of the war in Iraq, that war is even more critical to the cabal that exploited 9/11 to maneuver us into it... All the neocon eggs are in the Baghdad basket.
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I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.
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Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.
