Olivia Colman Quotes
I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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There's no business like show business.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
