Olivia Colman Quotes
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
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I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.
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We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.
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At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
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If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
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Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
