Toby Stephens Quotes
It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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You can never have enough talent.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.
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I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
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It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
