Beth Grant Quotes
I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
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By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
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If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.
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I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
