- 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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
- Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that a degree would be 'something to fall back on.' Whilst at college, I realised I wasn't good enough or robust enough to be an actress.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'
- Good Stories
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have Hollywood tell me or other women like me that we're not a market that interests them is silly. Good stories work.
- Better Now
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- Nov 07, 2020