Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
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Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
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People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.
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I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.
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We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
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You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
