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 tell you, I've always been quite physical about acting. I've always felt about for the shape of someone or the deportment, for better or worse. Sometimes I think I've done it disastrously, and other times, when I'm not thinking about it so much, less disastrously, but I can't seem to control it much.
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I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
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Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.
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I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.
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I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.
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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.
