Sally Hawkins Quotes

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

Sally Hawkins

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• Childhood
• Influence
• Act
• Films

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• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Enjoy

• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Done

• I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Audience

• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Way
  • Action
  • Comedy

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Brother
  • Three
  • Obsession

• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • You
  • Church
  • Act

• I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Air

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Love
  • Positive

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Violence
  • Childhood

• I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Up
  • Black
  • Brother

• There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Deep
  • Childhood
  • Meaningful

• I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Play
  • See
  • Influence

• Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

  

  Bill Gurley
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Perfect
  • Shoes

• I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I'll be happy.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Game

• I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands. If I did go back to television, I'd do a comedy, a half hour. Or I'd go back on an hour long if it was ensemble, if I had a smaller role, if I could work less days.

  

  Ally Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Friend
  • Acknowledge

• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Influence