Barbara Rosenblat Quotes
I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
Quotes to Explore
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
