Bob Proctor Quotes
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
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It's been a long road and I'm still going strong.
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Mormonism, it seems to me, is-objectively-just a little more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be: because it is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what's going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I'm aware of.
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There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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There is great stuff waiting for you on the other side of fear.
