Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
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If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.
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Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.
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The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
