Down Quotes
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
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My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
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I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.
