David Wenham Quotes
Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
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Playing with friends is a victory.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.
