Jessica Raine Quotes
I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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Sometimes heaven was feeling nothing. Maybe being drunk was a little like dying and going to heaven. Like living in the light. He kept thinking of Ileana. She was eight now.
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I don't tour to make money: I do it because I love it. When I'm putting a tour together, I'm not sitting with number-crunchers, having them tell me I can't do this or that.
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I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.
