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It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.


Bertie Carvel

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DWIGHT W. HAYES I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
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GEORGE A. ROMERO It is a lie.
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SARAH J. MAAS I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor....
SPALDING GRAY You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
RICKY GERVAIS A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ...
CONDOLA RASHAD The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to...
FINN JONES Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm m...
ORLANDO BLOOM I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. I...
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DREW BARRYMORE One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.
DAVID GREGORY I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
YANN MARTEL When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
RACHEL WEISZ I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.
JIM CAVIEZEL If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but...
MELISSA BENOIST As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread ...
IAN HOLM History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL And I'm OK being judged as an actor.
SEAN HAYES I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes....
AUTRE NE VEUT I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sou...
LUKE BRYAN When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
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MALCOLM COWLEY Beautiful things happen in your life,if you distance yourself from all the negative things.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and th...
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ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
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CHANNING TATUM Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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JIM PIDDOCK I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
ABBIE CORNISH they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
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RAJAT MOHAN He who must travel happily must travel light.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. M...
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Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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SHEMAR MOORE I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
ALEX COX I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but...
COLIN FARRELL I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I co...
KEN WATANABE As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic tru...
LARRY DRAKE I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself...
RHYS IFANS Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's someb...
CLINT EASTWOOD I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
JOE DIMAGGIO Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I e...
MATT DILLON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
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LEV GROSSMAN I want consistency. Is there a double standard?
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PIERCE BROWN I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I lov...
PETER CULLEN I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...
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LESLIE ODOM, JR. I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
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