Katie McGrath Quotes
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.
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When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.
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We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.
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No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
