Imelda Staunton Quotes
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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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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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!
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I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
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The status quo leads to self-destruction.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
