- Parents
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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
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the costume designer told me that pocket squares had just been introduced. The tango was becoming fashionable in London, and dancers used them to mop their brows. I love to learn fascinating stuff like that.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early age that I wouldn't go into medicine because I couldn't do biology and chemistry.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to camp. Early on, Mars is going to be camping. I think there are people far better suited to do that than me. But when the first Holiday Inn Express shows up, maybe I'll go.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.
- Biggie
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you hear people talking about the Golden Era of rap, they're usually talking about the early Wu Tang Clan era and then Nas and Biggie and so on. But for me, it goes back to the '80s - 1986 to 1989.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020