Ophelia Lovibond Quotes
When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.
Quotes to Explore
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I like risky stuff.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.
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When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.
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When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.
