William Finnegan Quotes
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.
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If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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I learned early that class is universally admired.
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It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
