Felicity Jones Quotes
I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I love working with women.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
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Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.
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I jokingly say that the enemies are children, you know. I always say, if you have young kids, your whole goal from the moment they wake up is to make them tired. It's exhausting. Anybody who's got kids knows what I'm talking about.
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The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
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I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
