Penelope Wilton Quotes

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

Penelope Wilton

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• I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Want
  • Problems
  • Terrorism

• I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Artist

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Development

• I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Home
  • Game
  • Attention

• I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Mind
  • Been
  • Since

• (Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Style
  • Hangover

• Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Sex

• One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one’s own doorstep was a shock.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Bad
  • Existentialism

• In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

  

  Chris Terrio

• In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • People
  • Parents

• I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Important
  • Pain
  • Design

• You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Alone
  • Grit

• I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Water

• Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • She
  • Mother

• It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • Past

• Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Done
  • Art
  • Band

• If I'm feeling healthy - like, I've eaten well and have drank a lot of water and have clothes that feel good - I feel good.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Water

• You really notice how you're growing when you go on tour. To be able to tour around the world, and do bigger venues every year, is really, really cool.

  

  Astrid S
  • World
  • Growing
  • Cool

• The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

  

  Joe Baca
  • Stop
  • Hurt

• They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Game
  • Golf

• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

  

  John Hench
  • Experience
  • Chaos

• Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Up
  • Wind

• When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

  

  Penelope Wilton