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.
I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you...
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
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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....
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
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.
If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.
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.
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.
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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.
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...
I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.
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.
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.
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an English teacher, you've got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology....
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge...
People assume that your audience is full of people who love you. But, typically, it's one person in four who's chosen to come and has convinced some other people to go with them.
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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