Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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By making yourself better, that's how you make your team better.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.
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My family and school life are important to me.
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The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.
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I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
