Emily Mortimer Quotes
New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.
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On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
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America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.
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New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
