Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

Andrea Riseborough

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• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'

  

  Maluma
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Myself

• I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Health

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Grease

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Hope
  • New
  • Drug

• I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Psychology
  • Observer

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Day

• I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Worst

• I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • See
  • Just
  • Where

• There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Community
  • Service

• You definitely see a difference in some guys' games when they do get paid. I'm trying to make sure I'm not that player.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Player

• I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

  

  Knut Hamsun
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • School
  • High
  • Success

• I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Work