Maxine Peake Quotes

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Maxine Peake

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual
  • Feel

• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Very

• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Paint

• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • One-Man

• We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Personality
  • Speed
  • Facebook

• If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Person
  • Goal

• I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Find
  • I Can

• I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Hope
  • Like
  • Dreams

• He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

  

  Jack Kroll
  • Nature
  • Joy
  • Changes

• 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Ideas
  • Parenting

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Theater

• On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' I'll get up about 5:30 A.M .and go to Malibu and surf. There's something very therapeutic and healing about it.

  

  Austin Nichols
  • Up
  • Healing
  • Saturday

• The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• If we can keep our heads—and our nerve—the long-awaited economic miracle is in our grasp. Britain can achieve in the Seventies what Germany and France achieved in the Fifties and Sixties.

  

  Denis Healey
  • Long
  • Miracle

• When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

• Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

  

  Maxine Peake