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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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.
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I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.
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There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
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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.
