Celia Imrie (Celia Diana Savile Imrie) Quotes
I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
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I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.
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Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.
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I am not a rabid partisan.
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Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.
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I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.
