Chris Priestley Quotes
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.
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I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
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The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
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They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.
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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
