Hayley Atwell Quotes
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
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There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
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No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
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I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.
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An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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And lovelier things have mercy shownTo every failing but their own,And every woe a tear can claimExcept an erring sister's shame.
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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
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I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
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You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
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A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
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This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.
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The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
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I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.
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People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.
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My favorite expression is a tag line or an advertising and marketing campaign that Ford ran a number of years ago. They ran it for almost 12 years, and it was, 'Have you driven a Ford lately?'
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I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level.
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If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
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I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid.
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Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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What shall I do to be forever known,And make the age to come my own?
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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
