Rebecca Hall Quotes
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I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.
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When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.
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Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.
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I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.
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It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
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If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.
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I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.
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I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.
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I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
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I don't want to massively slag off Marvel, I don't. Because they have just employed a woman to be their superhero, and so hallelujah.
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There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
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To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.
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When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.
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Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
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I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.
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One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black – and – white films.
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There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.
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I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.
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We cannot talk with animals as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.
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If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.
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I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.
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I always look for contradiction in a character.
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I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.
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As I'm sure anyone who's born after the '70s' access point is - is '70s films and '70s culture and there is a kind of a paranoiac atmosphere in that time in America. Yes, it's the golden age of journalism, Watergate, and all the rest of these people making these great breakthroughs - but it's also the moment that "if it bleeds, it leads" becomes mainstream and sensationalizing the news becomes more and more the given. Checking how many numbers you're getting, whatever you can do to get more numbers.