Andrea Riseborough Quotes

Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

Andrea Riseborough

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Stuff

• I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Women
  • Want
  • Beautiful

• The purpose of all wars, is peace.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Peace
  • Purpose
  • Wars

• I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

  

  Flume
  • Inspiration
  • Routine

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Character
  • Me
  • Name

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Purpose
  • Best
  • Picture

• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  

  B. B. King
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Learning

• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Done
  • Character
  • Theatre

• 'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • May
  • Guy

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Character
  • Day
  • Idea

• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Know
  • Down

• You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making people look good. It's really creating the character.

  

  Kristen Connolly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

  

  Brendan Fraser
  • Purpose

• It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Grandma

• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Color
  • Missing

• Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Purpose