Kelly Macdonald Quotes
I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Values are more important than money.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.
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Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
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The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
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Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
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When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.
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I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.
