Olivia Colman Quotes
I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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I love improvising.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
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Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
