Jodie Whittaker Quotes
I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
-
I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
-
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
-
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
-
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
-
The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
-
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
-
No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
-
A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
-
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
-
With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
-
The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
-
I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
-
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
-
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
-
Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
-
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.
-
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
-
I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.
-
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
-
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
-
I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
