Tamsin Greig Quotes

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Tamsin Greig

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• I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

  

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• Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

  

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• I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

  

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• Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

  

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• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  

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• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

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• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

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• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
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• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

  

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• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

  

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• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
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• There is a massive call for more lightworkers, and now is our time to rise up and bring more positivity to the world.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
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• Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
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• The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.

  

  David Wong
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• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny