Andrea Riseborough Quotes

Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.

Andrea Riseborough

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• I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Think
  • Today
  • Fighting

• I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Give
  • Him
  • Immigrants

• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Love
  • Sometimes

• You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Happy
  • Act
  • Be Happy

• I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Love
  • Like
  • Questions

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Real
  • Giving
  • Support

• So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Never
  • Popular
  • System

• Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Game
  • Space
  • Humanity

• You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Play

• If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Want
  • Compromise

• If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Food
  • Single
  • Speak

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi

• All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Bad

• God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • God
  • Mind
  • American

• People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • People

• It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • True
  • Evil
  • Ugly

• When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hero
  • Capable

• I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Person
  • Hero

• Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Confused

• I don't believe anyone's selling out. I got into this business to entertain and, of course, make a living from it, and to be able to have our music heard in whatever way.

  

  Steve Harwell
  • Music
  • Living
  • Heard

• Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.

  

  Andrea Riseborough