- Future
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020