Anne Reid Quotes
Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.
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The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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If you try to kill yourself for a role on the TV show, you'll succeed. It's too long, it's too much. So, it's tough, but the challenge is a good thing.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.
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I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.
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Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
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How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.
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Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.
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Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.
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Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
