David Pleat Quotes
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.
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I lost my confidence.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
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I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
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The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
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I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.
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He is an interesting player - short back legs.
