Sharon Horgan Quotes
I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.
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Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.
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I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
