Lesley Manville Quotes
I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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A lot of groups, they get put together. But we don't even think of each other as a group. I don't think I'm in a group with two other guys, where I don't know their moms and their grandmas, their aunties, and I don't know where they came from. This is my immediate family. These are the only people I know. That's why we be around each other so much.
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I was one of those young girls that had no fear. I had goals. I knew that everything I touched would turn to gold.
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I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
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Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
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I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.
