Dawn French Quotes
The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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I am a Bruce Lee fan. I may be my fans' hero, but even heroes have their heroes. And mine is Bruce Lee.
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The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.
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Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
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The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
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The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
