Penelope Wilton Quotes
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
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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.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.
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(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)
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Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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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.
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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.
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In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
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My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.
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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.
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You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.
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I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.
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When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
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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.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.
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“The balls as slippery as a wet trout”
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Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
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Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
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We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
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When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.
