Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

Hilary Mantel

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• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Star

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • You
  • Like
  • Act

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Mountain

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Know
  • Belief
  • Inside

• Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Doing

• Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Men

• Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Great
  • Country
  • Priority

• Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

  

  Andrea Corr
  • Life

• I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Discipline

• Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassailable, like masculine fortresses. It's like how the 9/11 firemen were venerated.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Strong

• I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing.

  

  Michael Cristofer
  • Directing
  • Stopped
  • Became

• Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Real
  • Freedom
  • Value

• I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Smile

• Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Real
  • Information
  • Fiction