Eddie Redmayne Quotes
I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
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It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.
Garry Kasparov -
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.
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I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.
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I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
