Tom Hollander Quotes
If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
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I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
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… when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?
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There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.
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I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.
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It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
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'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.
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I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.
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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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A successful coach is one who is still coaching.
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If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
