Laura Carmichael Quotes
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.
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Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
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Early in my career, I'd plan something out for my characters. But I've learned that if you know who your character is and you go on instinct, it won't be wrong. It's never wrong. It's just different.
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Plot is character revealed by action.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
