Elizabeth Debicki Quotes
I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.
Quotes to Explore
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
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There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they don't go to RADA. There just aren't the parts for dwarfs, and if you like it or not, you're typecast as a dwarf.
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I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
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I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.
