Martin Clunes Quotes
Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.
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Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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No two persons ever read the same book.
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I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
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I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.
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I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I share everything. I don't care. I don't have anything to hide. I'm very transparent that way.
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It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.
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My people were divided about surrendering.
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I guess Malayali women like bubbly, happy-go-lucky guys, and I am all of that. I'm yet to discover how I'm such a hit there. The fans there are difficult to win over.
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I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
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I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'
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Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.
