Tamsin Greig Quotes
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
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The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.
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People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
