Alfie Allen Quotes
You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I don't think about the media.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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One thing I always think about is, at the end of the day, nobody really cares about you as much as they do about themselves. It's a very reassuring thing, in a good way. Pay attention to yourself, and use that energy and put it towards yourself.
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People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
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You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.
