Bel Powley Quotes

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

Bel Powley

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

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• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

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• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

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• I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

  

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• I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

  

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• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

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• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  

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• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

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• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  

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  • Amazing
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• Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

  

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• I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.

  

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  • Crazy
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• I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

  

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• I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.

  

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• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  

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• The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

  

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• I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

  

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• The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

  

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• My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.

  

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• How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.

  

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• I hate watching myself on TV.

  

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  • Hate

• The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

  

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• All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Age