When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
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DIANA GABALDON I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're pop... ROZONDA THOMAS Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurt... ZACH MCGOWAN I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or ... JARON LANIER It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't c... BILLY HIGGINS I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a ris... KATHERINE LANGFORD I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wan... MARTIN CAMPBELL When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bull... KAT GRAHAM I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for ... 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The middle class is so funny... J. K. ROWLING I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when... HEATHER MATARAZZO I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing s... AIMEE BENDER I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or... WARREN SPECTOR When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because y... CARA DELEVINGNE The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You'... TOMMY CHONG I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... BO BURNHAM The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're cal... DON CHEADLE You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstei... BILL WATTERSON You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying c... HOPE DAVIS I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never kn... WIZ KHALIFA Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, w... RICKY WILLIAMS Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we'... KNUTE ROCKNE I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work ... BEYONCE KNOWLES I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, a... FEIST
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BEN BERNANKE In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif... BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and... BEN FOSTER The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. BEN JOHNSON When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human... BEN SILBERMANN There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r... BEN HECHT We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m... BEN CARSON I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... BEN JONSON