Lindsay Duncan Quotes
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
Quotes to Explore
-
More modern poetry is written than read.
-
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
-
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
-
I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
-
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
-
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
-
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
-
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
-
I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
-
The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
-
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
-
I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
-
Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
-
In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
-
It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
-
I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
-
When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.
-
I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
-
What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.
-
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
-
It is not truth that matters, but victory.
-
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?
-
You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.
-
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
