Amanda Abbington Quotes

I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Together
  • Tree
  • Creation

• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Really

• I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Attention
  • Clothes
  • Too Much

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Work Hard

• The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • School
  • Girl
  • Support

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking. She was one of the leaders of the desegregation of Nashville, basically. She was a student at Fisk University who was one of the founding members of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • She
  • Freedom

• Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.

  

  Carmen Ejogo
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Different
  • Action
  • Attention

• Initially, when people asked us when 'Toy Story 2' was going to come out, we'd say, 'We have no interest in sequels. We just want to do original stories.'

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People

• People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • People
  • Divorced

• I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.

  

  Amanda Abbington
  • People
  • Good