Mackenzie Crook Quotes
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.
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It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.
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And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
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I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
