Kelly Reilly Quotes
As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.
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Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
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I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.
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As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.
