Michelle Forbes Quotes
I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.
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I'm the third of five children.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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I live and die by puns.
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To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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IQ is a genetic given that cannot be changed by life experience, and that our destiny in life is largely fixed by these aptitudes.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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In Galatians 4:14 Paul is not contrasting Christ with an angel; he is equating him with an angel.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
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I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.
