Ben Jonson Quotes
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
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A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.
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Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
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Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.
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His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory.
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I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.
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I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.
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You can ask me anything you want; I'm very opinionated... except about my private life. I don't want to talk about that.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
