Stephen Rea Quotes
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.
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I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two - Bit Waltz'. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
