Samantha Barks Quotes
I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.
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Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.
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It's important to stay current and fresh.
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It's so true: the fight is won or lost in the gym, and those words really stuck with me throughout my career.
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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
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I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
