Anna Maxwell Martin Quotes
As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
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As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
