- Nov 07, 2020
Doing Quotes
On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.
These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.
- Scary
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are amazing, but when I was like, 'Well, I'm going to be an actress,' and they're all doctors, that wasn't the best and easiest thing to do. I'm sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn't telling them exactly what I was doing. But that's going to evolve.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a drought-tolerant garden; I've got a company - crazy as it sounds, we make yogurt. There are actors who have to act no matter what, but I don't want to do it just for the sake of doing it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020