Vanessa Kirby Quotes
My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
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In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
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If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
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I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.
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I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
