Sally Hawkins Quotes

#1. Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.

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#2. I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!

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#3. You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

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#4. I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

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#5. You always want your films to go as far as they can.

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#6. I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

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#7. Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

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#8. I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active ... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

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#9. Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

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#10. I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

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#11. I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

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#12. A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

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#13. I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

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#14. I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

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#15. My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

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#16. You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

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#17. You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.

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#18. I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.

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#19. I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

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#20. People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

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#21. I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

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#22. What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

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#23. The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

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#24. I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

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#25. My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

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#26. Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

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#27. You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

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#28. I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

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#29. Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

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#30. I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

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#31. My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

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#32. You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

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