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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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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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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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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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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But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
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I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.
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Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
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After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'
