Helen McCrory Quotes
I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
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The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.
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How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.
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I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
