Eddie Redmayne Quotes

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.'

Eddie Redmayne

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• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Caught

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Bored

• My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Focus

• We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Say
  • Screw
  • Hostess

• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Mad
  • Generation
  • Logic

• It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Simple
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Think
  • Space
  • Matter

• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Know
  • Proud

• I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Live
  • Song
  • Name

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• The poet who writes 'free' verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Free
  • Cooking
  • Dirty

• I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Job
  • Famous

• I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Friend

• Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Greatness
  • Mediocrity
  • Imitation

• 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.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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