Lord Byron Quotes

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

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• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  

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• I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

  

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• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

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• My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mind
  • Point Of View
  • Absurd