Helen McCrory Quotes
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'
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I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
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In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.
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There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.
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That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.
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I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.
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I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
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There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.
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I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception.
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I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
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I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.
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Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.
