Brenda Blethyn Quotes
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
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I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.
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I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.
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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
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I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
