Ben Chaplin Quotes
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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Justice is revenge.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
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I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.
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My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.
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When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
