Olivia Colman Quotes
If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
Quotes to Explore
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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When 'Men's Health' reached out and said, 'Will you be on the 'Today Show' and do a fitness challenge?' I said, 'OK. I'm not showing them anything they don't already know.' But I'm going to take what some would argue is a negative or not substantive and turn it into a substantive thing to hopefully do some good for people.
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I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.
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Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free.
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I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
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If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
