- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can't direct plays.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.
- Chain
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I was confused about - was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn't mean you don't want equal rights.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020