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I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!


Samuel Smiles

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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
SAMUEL PEPYS How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about?
PAULA STOKES Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world...
STEVE MARABOLI I look upon the whole world as my parish.
JOHN WESLEY TRINA:
I'm tired of all the happy men who rule the world.
Their smile, their smile's their...
WILLIAM FINN I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.
ASTRO You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of...
SHEMAR MOORE As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac...
HERBIE HANCOCK You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I ...
ANGELINA JOLIE I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no ...
LEAH RAEDER Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling...
MANDY MOORE For a very long time, I wasn't thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Ever...
JESSICA BIEL As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming s...
LAWRENCE G. LOVASIK I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
DORIS DAY As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The ...
JOSHUA BELL For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.
DAVID E. KELLEY For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
DANIEL CLOWES sometimes the whole internet and world also seems the whole piece of mud, and it kills me... but i d...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
MICHAEL CHANG As and when I get into a relationship, I'll flaunt her to the world. I'm looking for a soul ...
SURESH RAINA I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for am...
JASON SILVA He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any gi...
JOHN GRANT I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to ...
DAVID QUAMMEN The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
PAUL WATSON You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I ...
BRANDON FLOWERS A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the...
TYLER COWEN If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead ...
MARIO BALOTELLI Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called c...
ROBERT BURNS I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world th...
MIKA i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL I could pretty much live anywhere in the world as long as I'm with my family.
ELOISE WELLINGS Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë Smile and the whole world smiles with you, frown and you frown alone. It’s amazing what a simple s...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. ...
LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE The world is in motion, as it seems.
UTADA HIKARU In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be ...
JACK REYNOR I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
LARA STONE The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my...
MAURICE GREENE Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfa...
ALBERT ELLIS Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.
JOAN LAPORTA This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous be...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Sometimes your simple smile means a whole world to some people. A smile does not cost anything. Smil...
JOHN B. BEJO Of course, from one point of view, I know that on the day of my release I will merely be moving from...
OSCAR WILDE I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.
BEN AFFLECK As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western worl...
CAITLIN MORAN I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn...
CAITLYN JENNER There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this a...
PETER SINGER The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
ERIC HOFFER The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to drop.
ERIC HOFFER A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an i...
NEIL MACGREGOR If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world ...
NICK LOWE We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha...
GEORGE BENSON 'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was bett...
ALEXANDRA CHANDO Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred...
DAME EDITH SITWELL The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughin...
MATTHEW PERRY My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me wit...
RAINI RODRIGUEZ People sometimes approach me tentatively or suspiciously because of my father's reputation as a ...
IVANKA TRUMP As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
ANDY GROVE I´m starting to think that I´m the butt of a joke the whole world is in on.
JIMMY FALLON Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
YASMINE BLEETH I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm ...
NORMAN REEDUS In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My little brothers can ask me any question in the world, and if I've got the answer, I'm goi...
STEFON DIGGS Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjo...
TOM HODGKINSON I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and ha...
KAREN CARPENTER Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES If any man hates me,he is the luckiest person in the world,because I always pray for my enemies.
JOSEPH BOAZ I'm a military baby, so I kind of always see the world as one; we just have different colours, a...
CIARA We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as...
ERIC HOFFER As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
BERLIE DOHERTY The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ...
LIONEL MESSI I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People lov...
DAVID RUDISHA When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the...
C. S. LEWIS An inventor is a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
DIPLO As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm o...
STEVE-O I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I�...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
MICKEY ROONEY

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SAMUEL SMILES He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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SAMUEL SMILES The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th...
SAMUEL SMILES Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
SAMUEL SMILES The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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SAMUEL SMILES Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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SAMUEL SMILES We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mi...
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SAMUEL SMILES The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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SAMUEL SMILES Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once;...
SAMUEL SMILES The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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SAMUEL SMILES It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station i...
SAMUEL SMILES The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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SAMUEL SMILES Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
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SAMUEL SMILES It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the...
SAMUEL SMILES Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
SAMUEL SMILES Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves ...
SAMUEL SMILES He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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SAMUEL SMILES The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t...
SAMUEL SMILES Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
SAMUEL SMILES The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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SAMUEL SMILES It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and di...
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SAMUEL SMILES He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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SAMUEL SMILES All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advanceme...
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SAMUEL SMILES To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itsel...
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Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you...
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SAMUEL SMILES To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
SYDNEY SMILES The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
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ERIK SMILES Terry was huge. He's a tremendous defensive stopper.
ERIK SMILES Let go of your perceived control, and let the unknown turn you on.
PRESTON SMILES I never liked you, and I always will.
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SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in ...
SAMUEL BECKETT All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to r...
SAMUEL BECKETT I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
SAMUEL BARNETT I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings...
SAMUEL BARNETT In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broad...
SAMUEL BARNETT With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you c...
SAMUEL BARNETT I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l...
SAMUEL BARNETT The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly reb...
SAMUEL BARNETT My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind m...
SAMUEL BARNETT I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I...
SAMUEL BARNETT Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to b...
SAMUEL BARNETT I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
SAMUEL BARNETT I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
SAMUEL BARNETT Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
SAMUEL BARNETT Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and...
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