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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• It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Interesting
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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

• Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Platform

• I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

  

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

  

  Natalie Dormer
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  • 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
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  • Education

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• My party is committed to a federation.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Party
  • Committed
  • Federation

• When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Easy
  • Someone
  • Knife

• 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

• I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Work
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• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Pretty
  • Say
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• If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
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• 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
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• 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

• The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like 'Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?' With 'Constantine,' too, they really trust me to scare the audience.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Game

• I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Character
  • Couple

• I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Opinion
  • Ability
  • Facts

• 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