Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver (Minnie Driver) Quotes
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I'm an actor.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?
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Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
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By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.
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And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
