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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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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“Be not grieved above the measure for thy deceased loved ones. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to that great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.”
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It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
