- 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
- Roads
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
- Disproportionate
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- Nov 07, 2020
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won't work for another.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with movies is that you see from the first day - you're on a train, and if the movie is not going in the right direction you know it right away. Sometimes, you can't get off the train, and the whole experience is painful.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020