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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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the 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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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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I took opportunities, big or small, to show that I was a constant professional. I feel like the Sam Jackson of network TV drama.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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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.
