Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes
There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.
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I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
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For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.
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There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.
