Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I play myself every day, and it's quite boring.

Andrea Riseborough

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• Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Silence

• I don't get star-struck at all.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Star
  • Get

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Time
  • Past
  • Better

• Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Audience
  • Said

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Friends
  • More
  • Just

• I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Different
  • Looking
  • Going

• If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • Saying

• Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Experience
  • Sweet
  • Sexy

• You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Light

• Sorrow be damned and all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • True

• I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Business

• ‘…you read mostly menus and the moles on whores’ bellies….’

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Humanity

• I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

  

  Eric Bachmann
  • Writing
  • Consider
  • Stockbroker

• Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Memory

• I play myself every day, and it's quite boring.

  

  Andrea Riseborough