Jared Harris Quotes
The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.
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Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.
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The best way to afford a suit is to work.
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The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.
