Neve McIntosh (Carol McIntosh) Quotes

I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'

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• After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

  

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• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

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• I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

  

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• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

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• I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

  

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• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

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• I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.

  

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• The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

  

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• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

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• Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

  

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• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

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• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

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• My first priority is trying to protect my family.

  

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• I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

  

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• I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

  

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• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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• Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.

  

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• Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

  

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• So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

  

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• I flow between modern and traditional jazz, between samba and choro - all maybe in a week's time.

  

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• If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

  

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• I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'

  

  Neve McIntosh
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