Helen McCrory Quotes

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

Helen McCrory

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• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Together
  • Alone
  • Day

• Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
  • Science
  • Aim

• I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Great
  • Night
  • Me

• There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Queen

• I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Different
  • Love
  • Myself

• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Human
  • Born
  • Nobility

• Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Why

• The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Exercise

• Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

  

  Chet Baker
  • Work
  • Art
  • Smart

• When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.

  

  Alan Alda
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Emotional
  • Germans
  • Chrysler

• Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Morning

• We knew we were going to be short-handed, being that Chris wasn't playing, and other guys stepped up and played big for us.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Playing
  • Guys

• I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.

  

  Sara Canning
  • People
  • Study
  • Persons

• Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Real
  • Optimism
  • Accentuate

• There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Done
  • Shooting
  • Quitting

• Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Character
  • Unhappy

• What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Meaning
  • Unhappy
  • Creature

• If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Unhappy
  • Frightened
  • Bloody