Ben Chaplin Quotes

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

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• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • Find
  • Gone

• I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Character
  • Yourself
  • Relax

• On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • Maintenance

• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Home
  • Think

• I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Change

• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • Me
  • Landscape

• I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Brother

• Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Professional

• My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Start

• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Parents

• The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Always
  • First
  • Awkward

• I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Like
  • Confidence
  • Cocky

• I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • Hair

• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  

  Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Country
  • Struggle
  • Finish

• I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Running

• In those times I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance that He knows how to find me.

  

  Neva Coyle
  • God
  • Find
  • Times

• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

  

  Sophocles
  • Knife
  • Mutter
  • Wise Doctor

• I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

  

  Ben Chaplin