Lindsay Duncan Quotes
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
Quotes to Explore
-
I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
-
I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
-
The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
-
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
-
I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
-
I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
-
Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
-
I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
-
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
-
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
-
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
-
People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
-
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
-
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
-
In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
-
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
-
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
-
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
-
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
-
Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.
-
I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.
-
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
-
You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.
-
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
