Janet McTeer Quotes
In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It's the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn't with film.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
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The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!
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A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It's the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn't with film.
