Greta Scacchi Quotes

#1. Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

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#2. I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

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#3. Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

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#4. I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

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#5. I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

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#6. My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

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#7. One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

Michael O'Donoghue

#8. I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

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#9. I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

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#10. I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

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#11. Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

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#12. I want to come across as a positive person.

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#13. With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

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#14. On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

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#15. The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

Terence McKenna

#16. I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

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#17. The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

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#18. In my position, the right witchdoctor
Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands,
Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other,
Godless, happy, quieted.
I managed
A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown.

Ted Hughes

#19. Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

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#20. Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

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#21. I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

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#22. Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

Irvin D. Yalom

#23. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman

#24. I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

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#25. Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Eric Hoffer

#26. In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

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#27. I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

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#28. Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

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#29. It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

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#30. You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

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#31. I wouldn't underestimate Emma," said Julian in a voice like razor wire. "Or you'll find your head lying on the ground next to your still-twitching body."

"How graphic," said Iarlath, amused.

Cassandra Clare

#32. However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Isaac Asimov

#33. A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Greta Scacchi