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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
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People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
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Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
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Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
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The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
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We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.
Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.
Letter to General Gates (7 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
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