Felicity Jones Quotes
When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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India always inspires me.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.
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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.
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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
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When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
