Kelly Reilly Quotes
I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
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I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.
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I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.
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I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
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I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.
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I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.
