Jonny Lee Miller Quotes

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

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• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• My party is committed to a federation.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Party
  • Committed
  • Federation

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Speak

• I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Thought

• We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Pretty
  • Say
  • Will

• The reality is different. They are so matured as far as democracy is concerned, they rejected the color TV promised by Congress. They rejected the color TV, and they accepted a person who says that I'll serve the notice to tax evaders. And this is the strength of the democracy.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Democracy

• On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

  

  Larry Wall

• Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• As we passed under the last bridge over the canal, just before reaching the Merrimack, the people coming out of church paused to look at us from above, and apparently, so strong is custom, indulged in some heathenish comparisons; but we were the truest observers of this sunny day

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • People
  • Strong
  • Church

• Only God can stop Kobe Bryant.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • God
  • Stop

• French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Culture

• Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Gay

• If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

  

  Albert Brooks

• I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Honor

• Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Success
  • Design
  • Internet

• There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Kids

• Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Together
  • Science

• Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.

  

  Kathy Troccoli
  • Today
  • Moments
  • Face

• When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Character
  • Moments
  • Opinion