Ella Purnell Quotes
I don't want to inspire people to look pretty and buy makeup. I want to inspire them to knit scarves for Syrian refugees.

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I don't like the blame game, though.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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I don't want to inspire people to look pretty and buy makeup. I want to inspire them to knit scarves for Syrian refugees.