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 play the guitar every day.
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The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.
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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
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I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.
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Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.
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Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
