Adrian Edmondson Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
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I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
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I do think that there is something about an intelligent, strong woman who also needs to be taken care of that will attract a certain kind of man sometimes. And that relationship is interesting on screen. Bad relationships are more interesting than good relationships to watch.
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Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!
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We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
