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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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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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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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
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Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
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I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.
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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.
