Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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I don't like to play the victim.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.
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I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.
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What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
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If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
