Top 37 Jamie Bamber Quotes
#1. Ask yourself - Where do I want to be one year from today? Personal growth is a choice.
Bob Proctor
#2. British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.
Jamie Bamber
#3. I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.
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#4. My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.
Jamie Bamber
#5. Ah well,' he said, jovially. 'As Joan of Arc probably said: "Build a girl a fire and she's warm for a few minutes. Set a girl on fire and she's warm for the rest of her life."' I
Jodi Taylor
#6. I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.
David Banner
#7. I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.
Jamie Bamber
#8. It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.
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#9. There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form.
Jamie Bamber
#10. I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.
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#12. For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.
Jamie Bamber
#13. I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.
Juno Temple
#14. Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis.
Ivan M. Granger
#15. I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.
Jamie Bamber
#16. I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.
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#17. When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.
Jamie Bamber
#18. I think that insecurity/confidence balance is necessary.
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#19. It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
Jamie Bamber
#20. I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.
Jamie Bamber
#21. When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.
Jamie Bamber
#22. The problem with the treadmill is I just don't know what to do in my head. You either stare at the mirror or concentrate on the TV. It makes me ill because I can't relax on a treadmill.
Jamie Bamber
#23. Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#24. I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.
Jamie Bamber
#25. I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.
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#26. I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
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#27. I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.
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#28. L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
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#29. When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
Jamie Bamber
#30. You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
Eugene H. Peterson
#31. Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
Anna Quindlen
#32. When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.
Jamie Bamber
#33. I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will
Cassandra Clare
#34. We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
Laurel Clark
#35. The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.
Jamie Bamber
#37. Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.
Darynda Jones
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