Mackenzie Crook Quotes
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I look formidable.
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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I like to travel by myself.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.
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We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.
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I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
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Southerners smile more than other Americans.
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All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.
