Laura Haddock Quotes
I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
Quotes to Explore
-
I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
-
What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
-
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
-
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
-
The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
-
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
-
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
-
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
-
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
-
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
-
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
-
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
-
Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
-
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
-
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
-
I made nothing happen very slowly.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
-
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
-
At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.
-
I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
-
I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.
-
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
-
I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
