Maxine Peake Quotes

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

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• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law
  • Light
  • Nutrition

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Best

• I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Why
  • May
  • Body

• When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Author

• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Hard
  • Nothing
  • Awake

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Experience
  • Survival
  • Results

• I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Man
  • Look
  • Sexy

• Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Trust

• While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Business
  • Political
  • Giving

• A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Start
  • Finish
  • Transition

• Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Accountability
  • Torture

• I never wanted to be a playwright.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Playwright

• The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Character
  • Man
  • City

• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Long
  • May

• I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

  

  Max Winkler
  • School
  • Movie
  • Waiting

• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Ego
  • Instinct
  • Possibilities

• The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Happy

• And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Young
  • Lawyer
  • Professors

• I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

  

  Maxine Peake