Lea Salonga Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I'm not politically correct.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
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I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
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I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.
