Billie Whitelaw Quotes
I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
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For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.
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I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
