Catherine Tate quote: "I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral."

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because ...
CATHERINE TATE

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mech...
CATHERINE TATE

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the r...
CATHERINE TATE

[Tate still didn't know quite what to think.] I just came up here from New Orleans, ... And now this...
CATHERINE TATE

We say to her, 'Seriously, people will think you are taking the mickey out of them if you say that w...
CATHERINE TATE

Did Graeme Norton break your heart, sir?
CATHERINE TATE

Are you disrespecting me?
CATHERINE TATE

She is genuinely adorable, but she will say to people she doesn't know, 'Have an amazing day',
CATHERINE TATE

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I bui...
CATHERINE TATE

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
CATHERINE TATE

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It'...
CATHERINE TATE

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
CATHERINE TATE

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I&#...
CATHERINE TATE

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defi...
CATHERINE TATE

By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I ...
CATHERINE TATE

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
CATHERINE TATE

If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theat...
CATHERINE TATE

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppo...
CATHERINE TATE

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I start...
CATHERINE TATE

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ...
CATHERINE TATE

That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.
CATHERINE TATE

Am I bothered? Am I bothered though. I ain't doing nothing cause I ain't bothered.
CATHERINE TATE

I don't like tea! Never have, never drunk it.
CATHERINE TATE

I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. ...
CATHERINE TATE

Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to somethi...
CATHERINE TATE

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.
CATHERINE TATE

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it...
CATHERINE TATE

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.
CATHERINE TATE

Few things focus the mind like fear.
CATHERINE TATE

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off....
CATHERINE TATE

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried awa...
CATHERINE TATE

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
CATHERINE TATE

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know ...
SHARON TATE

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny ...
TATE TAYLOR

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so b...
TATE TAYLOR

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, ...
TATE TAYLOR

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a...
TATE TAYLOR

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Missis...
TATE TAYLOR

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so...
TATE TAYLOR

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to...
TATE TAYLOR

I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She ju...
TATE TAYLOR

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learn...
TATE TAYLOR

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
TATE TAYLOR

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
TATE DONOVAN

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be su...
TATE DONOVAN

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know wha...
TATE DONOVAN

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
TATE DONOVAN

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
TATE DONOVAN

I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
TATE DONOVAN

My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conf...
TATE DONOVAN

Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I rea...
TATE DONOVAN

I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
TATE DONOVAN

I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bor...
TATE DONOVAN

Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard...
TATE DONOVAN

'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
TATE DONOVAN

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
TATE DONOVAN

My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I want...
TATE DONOVAN

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up...
TATE DONOVAN

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very stric...
TATE DONOVAN

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
TATE DONOVAN

When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE

What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whe...
LARENZ TATE

I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. S...
LARENZ TATE

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ...
LARENZ TATE

Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 ...
LARENZ TATE

It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different dem...
LARENZ TATE

'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the...
LARENZ TATE

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the c...
LARENZ TATE

How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic mom...
LARENZ TATE

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
LARENZ TATE

'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us preten...
LARENZ TATE

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm ...
LARENZ TATE

I hate the stereotype that women who fight are 'butch' or 'wannabe men.' It's ni...
MIESHA TATE

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
JEFFREY TATE

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
NAHUM TATE

Dog cases cause such severe neighbor problems. The dog cases, they get so contentious.
ALISON TATE

Well, I care. If you don't do this, you could die.
ALISON TATE

It's a good thing he didn't touch me. I would have decked him.
ALISON TATE

He's not even close to ready. He is going to lose everything he's gained this far . . . . To show hi...
ALISON TATE

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambie...
JEFFREY TATE

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acou...
JEFFREY TATE

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
ALLEN TATE

Some of the linebackers tell me what they're going to do. Steve Gandy told me he was going to put th...
BEN TATE

It's helped me a great deal. I get to study plays beforehand. I'll be leaps and bounds ahead of ever...
BEN TATE

There are things I need to work on like pass blocking. They know I can run.
BEN TATE

I get to show what I can do a little bit. I don't know if we're tackling or not, but hopefully we ar...
BEN TATE

I just needed to get hit. Once I got hit, I was OK.
BEN TATE

There was no doubt in my mind that I could definitely play at this level. That's something I can do,...
BEN TATE

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. ...
SHARON TATE

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when...
ALLEN TATE

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
ALLEN TATE

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-...
ALLEN TATE

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and beca...
ALLEN TATE

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instan...
ALLEN TATE

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state ...
ALLEN TATE

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, p...
ALLEN TATE

Men expect too much, do too little.
ALLEN TATE

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
ALLEN TATE

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values
ALLEN TATE

We still believe a single format would be less confusing and more efficient for retailers.
AMANDA TATE

We are seeing a lot of interest in the accessories.
AMANDA TATE

Returned products are costly to retailers. When customers return the products listed above, those it...
AMANDA TATE

We do not discuss security issues at our stores.
AMANDA TATE

It's a continual process for us. We're always evaluating the shopping trends. People just weren't go...
AMANDA TATE

We don't want a format war to occur. The last thing we want to have is customers coming into the sto...
AMANDA TATE

Once those products are opened, we can no longer sell them at full price, so we have to make up for ...
AMANDA TATE

I think it's a great thing to keep kids busy and from out running the streets.
AMANDA TATE

We encourage parents and students to find out what specifications the college requires (for a comput...
AMANDA TATE

We've seen a lot of interest -- and a lot of questions -- from parents and students looking for eith...
AMANDA TATE

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whateve...
SHARON TATE

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This migh...
JEFFREY TATE

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
SHARON TATE

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle,...
JEFFREY TATE

Kyle had a remarkable race in the mass start classic. He started in the 57th pin position, which is ...
BRIAN TATE

These races were about four times bigger than a normal junior Olympic qualifier. The competition was...
BRIAN TATE

We have a lot of kids who have jobs, who are out for other sports or have little brothers and sister...
BRIAN TATE

These are 'no excuses' kids. They don't get tired. They don't complain about our school's lack of tr...
BRIAN TATE

Look, everybody is always telling us how good the city schools are getting and how tough we're going...
BRIAN TATE

He was big enough. I knew better than to let him get a hold of me. ... That kinda took the fight out...
BOB TATE

I slipped [the van] in reverse and bumped the bicycle.
BOB TATE

He took off as fast as he could.
BOB TATE

Just because I was ornery that day, I said I'd get him.
BOB TATE

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids th...
BOB TATE

I would love to earn another fight with Ronda Rousey again. She's the best in the world, and as ...
MIESHA TATE

I train twice a day, and I make sure I eat right. I'm an avid tea drinker, and I enjoy the benef...
MIESHA TATE

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
ALLEN TATE

I like that I'm in shape but still look like a woman. I don't feel like I've had to give...
MIESHA TATE

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckn...
JEFFREY TATE

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up f...
ALLEN TATE

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psyc...
ALLEN TATE

The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
NAHUM TATE

It was a bit of a switch-up, really.
CHARLIE TATE

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a p...
JAMES TATE

In most instances, if you are fleeing from a perpetrator, and he fires at you, most likely he won't ...
BARRY TATE

If you get that feeling that something isn't quite right, most of the time it isn't.
BARRY TATE

Try to avoid walking alone. If you want to exercise, have a friend or your spouse walk with you.
BARRY TATE

Toss the purse away from yourself and most likely they will go after it, and that is when you run an...
BARRY TATE

Just because someone looks safe, doesn't always mean they are. Always be aware of your surroundings,...
BARRY TATE

Usually, the most common type of attacker looks like your next door neighbor. They are married and h...
BARRY TATE

Bundy, a fairly attractive and intelligent man would lure women to his side by asking for help.
BARRY TATE

Existing utilities on site is by far the most important feature of an industrial lot. It's showing t...
DAN TATE

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
ALLEN TATE

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you ...
SHARON TATE

I'm training at Phase 1 Sports in Las Vegas, and it's a very high-end training facility for ...
MIESHA TATE

If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how...
ATOM TATE

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were t...
ALLEN TATE

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her inc...
JOSEPH TATE

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whateve...
SHARON TATE

Even if the perpetrator is angered enough by your refusal to go along with his demands, to where he ...
BARRY TATE

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the c...
SHARON TATE

The thing I just get so upset about is when we leave plays on the field. We've got chances to score ...
DREW TATE

Mr. Libby testified to the best of his honest recollection on all occasions.
JOSEPH TATE

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they...
SHARON TATE

He's just a quality person. He's respectful, always positive and led by example. He has a lot of int...
CHARLIE TATE

Every tournament we go to is a tough one. West Holmes is another. We set up our schedule a few years...
JEREMY TATE

Hell is a place reserved for people who want their enemies to rot in Hell for sinning against them. ...
ATOM TATE

Tatiana is a ridiculously curvy thing of dreams, with smooth succulent thighs, long strawberry blond...
BRETT TATE

Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 vo...
BRETT TATE

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a ...
SHARON TATE

Life. People. Before, I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean...
SHARON TATE

My whole life has been decided by fate.
SHARON TATE

Anytime you have a funeral of a person who is publicly known, it calls for extra security to handle ...
JAMES TATE

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50...
JEFFREY TATE

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts...
SHARON TATE

He is being nibbled to death by ducks.

--More Later, Less the Same
JAMES TATE

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
ALLEN TATE

Tim really came on and kept getting better. He had very good hands and became a very good blocker.
CHARLIE TATE

Our boys came out and played hard from the very beginning.
CHARLIE TATE

Scooter said to her, 'Judy, Joe Tate talked to Floyd Abrams more than a year ago and said it's volun...
JOE TATE

NOTHING goes exactly as planned.
Make your OWN destiny
TATE HALLAWAY

This number is probably just a fraction of what is needed in that marketplace.
JOHN TATE

It's interesting to see the convergence of all these sectors.
DEBORAH TATE

Face-to-face classes and the Internet support program were helpful because participants were taught ...
DEBORAH TATE

I'm very supportive of universal service and the concept.
DEBORAH TATE

I share a lot of the concerns that I hear and I've read about. In a very short period of time, there...
DEBORAH TATE

People like myself have been pushing, competing, and promoting female MMA for a long time, and to se...
MIESHA TATE

Ruby on Rails is quick and clean and that's the reason it's taking off. That's a gaping hole in Java...
BRUCE TATE

I do think that Java is in trouble on the low end.
BRUCE TATE

Every once in a while they might throw the ball across the field and it looks pretty. That's probabl...
DREW TATE

Keeping the ball that long means we're running the ball well, we're putting long drives together and...
DREW TATE

There's not much you can do when you only have the ball for two minutes (in the quarter).
DREW TATE

You saw what happened. Next question, I've got to grow up and act like a Division I football player.
DREW TATE

If he was leaving he would have left a long time ago. They offered him, I'm sure, complete control a...
DREW TATE

I thought we would have (tied the game). But it doesn't matter now. It's too late.
DREW TATE

I gave them a touchdown, the special teams gave them a touchdown. That's two touchdowns on us.
DREW TATE

I'd say the game went like the season. We started off bad and then we had a good little stretch. We ...
DREW TATE

He's just very smart and he has great coaches who understand football. We may only have a couple of ...
DREW TATE

I thought I overthrew him. Once Warren caught it, he wasn't going down.
DREW TATE

Everyone knows his honesty and his war record and they trust him.
DAN TATE

If we want to land someone who is going to employ a couple thousand people, we need to have 1,000 to...
DAN TATE

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not al...
JEFFREY TATE

At the beginning, it can be devastating. But to be honest, you learn more from a bad set than you do...
GEOFF TATE

I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He develop...
GEOFF TATE

We are sorry to lose Mark as he is a superb person, with extraordinary skill, experience and integri...
GEOFF TATE

The business climate in 2001 was marked by an extreme decline in memory prices and a very difficult ...
GEOFF TATE

The fans were so nice when I took Holly out of the game. They gave her a standing ovation, recognizi...
JANET TATE

Holly is doing a really good job. She has had two back-to-back really good efforts. She's really hit...
JANET TATE

It was a good win because GPS is a good team. But I'm not pleased with some routine things. Those li...
JANET TATE

The parents have worked so hard. They brought this all together. They have been absolutely incredibl...
JANET TATE

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

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