Anna Friel Quotes

Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'

Anna Friel

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• Hell
• Fake
• Scene
• Praying
• Uncomfortable

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• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • You
  • Good Things

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Music
  • Thought

• If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Company
  • Believed

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Want
  • Myself
  • China

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Character
  • Night
  • Day

• You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Women
  • Help
  • Man

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Natural
  • Dress
  • National

• And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • First
  • Flight
  • Backup

• The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Action
  • Revolution

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Energy
  • Growth

• Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Time
  • Touring

• The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Church
  • Scene
  • Breathless

• Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Scene
  • Short
  • Complicated

• Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'

  

  Anna Friel
  • Audience
  • Hell
  • Fake