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- 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
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
- Nov 07, 2020
I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who knew I performed, singing in church, she said, 'You know we have a speech team,' and she handed me a copy of 'The Crucible.'
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it's going to sound cliche, but we're all artists just trying to tell a story. Whether it's on television or whether it's in a theater, you just hope that people are moved.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
- Fronts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came into the business where Will Smith was pretty much taking over the world - or defending it, if you will. He was showing success on so many different fronts - television, recording, movies. So that was really my prototype in terms of looking at the business and seeing where you fit in.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make the most powerful movie ever made, and you hope that whatever resonates gets taken home and survives the night. You also hope that, the next morning, it gives someone pause before they would act on their more base instincts, or out of habit.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that you can make one speech or one movie, or express a thought or show the injustice of a particular time, you hope that it resonates, and you hope that resonance will last. You hope that it would create change.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can save one body, and one heart and soul and mind, then it's a worthy cause and a worthy venture.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020