- Matter
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
- Ascertain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have quick scenes, it becomes difficult to ascertain where your character fits and where they're going. I always enjoy scenes that have a movement to them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
- East Asian
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.
- Deathly
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020