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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My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
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What inspires me may not inspire someone else.
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You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
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That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
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It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
