Isaac Hempstead Wright Quotes
It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.
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I am not a player.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.
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It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'
