Iain Glen Quotes
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.
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Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
