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.
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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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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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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Many biblical passages teach that we're not saved by our own efforts but by the grace of God alone. But the same passages also tell us good works are an essential evidence of the salvation experience. We're not saved by good works, but for good works. It begins with God's grace, and it's sustained by his grace as you shape your character by what you do as you cross the bridge.
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I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
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All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.
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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.
