Bel Powley Quotes
I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.
Quotes to Explore
-
We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
-
I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
-
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
-
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
-
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
-
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
-
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
-
China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
-
The devil made me do it.
-
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
-
When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
-
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
-
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
-
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
-
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
-
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
-
I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
-
I love doing every role I do!
-
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.
-
I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
-
We spoke English in the film, which is not difficult for me. I studied English in school and in Spain. I can think in English as well as French, although I think differently in each language. Every French word has a history for me. Each has many inflections and nuances which I must consider before I use it. English is new. I don't worry about the nuances. I go directly to the idea. I try to communicate with the camera without wasting time on the meaning of the words themselves
-
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
-
There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.
-
I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.
