Rafe Spall Quotes
As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
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If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.
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To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.
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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
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You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.
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If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.
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As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
