Johnny Flynn Quotes
It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
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I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
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If people don't like it my music now, they will.
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It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.
