Abi Morgan Quotes
Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
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There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.
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You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
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I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.
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Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
