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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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
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We mutually agreed that 'we' weren't working out.
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You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
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After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'
