Olivia Colman Quotes

Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.

Olivia Colman

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• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Fun
  • Feel
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Great
  • Looking
  • Intelligence

• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
  • Up
  • Great
  • Museum

• 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.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Door

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Family
  • Support

• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Support

• When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Kid

• Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Help
  • Team

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Lucky
  • Kid
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Good
  • Great
  • Distance

• 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.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Great
  • Football
  • Wall

• 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.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Production

• One of the great joys of being a slip fielder who takes a catch is you are able to contribute to the bowler's success. Yes, you are putting yourself in the firing line if you stuff it up, but you must want to be in that position to make a difference, and recognise sometimes that you might make mistakes. There are no easy catches in the slips.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Success

• Comrade Tassinari was right in stating that for a revolution to be great, for it to make a deep impression on the life of the people and on history, it must be a social revolution.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Choice

• A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

  

  James Fenton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• It's almost easy for me to write about a magnificent tropical village with orchids and dragonflies. That's intoxicating, but the United States is magical, too. We just forget this.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea

• Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Great
  • Acting
  • Kid