Jamie Bell Quotes
I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
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I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
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I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
