- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually don't do much to my hair. It gets fussed over a lot on projects because there's a lot of it, and it's boy's hair, but as far as me, I tend to let it do what it wants.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really passionate about music. I do love acting, but music is the end goal for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020