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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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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How can you go wrong with playing around on a superhero show? Just the way that they do things and watching them do their thing was amazing to me. Also, superheroes are awesome!
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I was born by the river in a little tent. And just like the river, I've been running ever since. It's been a long, long time coming but I know a change is gonna come. Oh, yes it is.
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Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.
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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.
