Thomas Brodie-Sangster Quotes
I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
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I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.
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I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.
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My parents taught us to live within our means. It's time to force Washington to do the same.
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I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.
