Olivia Cooke Quotes
If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
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Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
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The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
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I love Sunday lunches with the family that start at 1 P.M. and finish at 5 P.M.
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'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave.
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
