Jodie Whittaker Quotes

I'm not cerebral in any way. Education, for me, was a nightmare. You put someone talking in front of me, and I cannot engage with that. I think that's why I'm an actor; if I can physically be in it, I get it.

Jodie Whittaker

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Work
  • Same
  • Expression

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Equal
  • Soil

• If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Myself
  • Confirmed

• If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Radio

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Help
  • Think
  • Tough

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Work
  • Great
  • Alone

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Popular
  • Own
  • Most

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Time
  • Morning

• You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Heart
  • True

• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.

  

  Jay Asher
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I'm not cerebral in any way. Education, for me, was a nightmare. You put someone talking in front of me, and I cannot engage with that. I think that's why I'm an actor; if I can physically be in it, I get it.

  

  Jodie Whittaker
  • Why
  • Education