Colm Wilkinson Quotes

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

Colm Wilkinson

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• When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Music
  • Try
  • Sadness

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Trying
  • Balance
  • Hollywood

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Light
  • Honor

• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• I don't buy cars I can't drive.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Drive
  • Buy

• Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Internet
  • Now

• My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Never
  • Guilty

• I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Comics
  • Particularly
  • Embraced

• The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Focus
  • Research
  • Islamic

• The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • History

• I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Trust

• The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Real
  • Differences
  • Land

• I've always been really into movies, and I definitely thought I'd be involved with movies at some point.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Know

• I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Believe
  • Movie

• Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr).

  

  African Spir
  • Progress
  • Nations
  • Murder

• President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Wonder

• Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Alone

• For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

  

  Eva Green
  • Loved
  • Birthday
  • Rainbow

• You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

  

  Colm Wilkinson