Lisa Edelstein Quotes
When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
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I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.
