Emun Elliott Quotes
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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My family are my friends.
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People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.
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I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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I think that once you’ve seen the ways in which lots of these animals are killed and how brutal and grotesque and unnecessary it is, I think that people would automatically choose not to wear fur.
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When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
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I've seen the future, brother:it is murder.
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There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.
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You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.
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Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
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My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.
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As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
