Shirley Henderson Quotes

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.

Shirley Henderson

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• Roles
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• Periods

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• I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

  

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• I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

  

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• For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

  

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• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

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• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  

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• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

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• It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'

  

  Parker Posey
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• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

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• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

  

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• Music is like my security blanket.

  

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• Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

  

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• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

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• We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

  

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• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  

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• The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

  

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• I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

  

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• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

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• I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.

  

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• A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.

  

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• BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.

  

  Vladimir Putin
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• I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Difficult
  • Research
  • Roles