Jim Sturgess Quotes
After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I was tested against the best.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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I never think I have to prove something.
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.
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A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.
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Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.
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After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'
