Eddie Marsan Quotes
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
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I know I am healthy enough to go out there and not hurt my teammates.
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The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.
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Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
