Maxine Peake Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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My health is fine.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
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People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.
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Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
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I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.
