Helen McCrory Quotes

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

Helen McCrory

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• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • You
  • Me

• If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Son
  • Cat
  • Pictures

• When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Contract
  • Filming

• Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Food
  • Period

• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Help
  • Evil
  • Understanding

• I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's been just the most amazing time of my life. I'd love more of it.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Cool

• I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Practice
  • Psychology
  • Craft

• I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Way
  • Me
  • Act

• I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Art
  • College
  • Reading

• There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Why

• One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Problems
  • Satisfactions

• I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker

  

  Richard Krajicek
  • Thinking
  • Loses

• Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Food

• I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Appreciate