Me Quotes
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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Acting has never excited me.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
