Christopher Bailey (Christopher Paul Bailey) Quotes
It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.
Quotes to Explore
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Politics is a good thing!
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
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I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
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I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.
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I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
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Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.
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Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.
