Laura Carmichael Quotes

#1. It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

Laura Carmichael

#2. I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.

Victoria Holt

#3. You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

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#4. There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

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#5. I don't really get recognised very much.

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#6. There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

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#7. I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.

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#8. I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out.

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#9. I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

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#10. I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

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#11. Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

Fred Rogers

#12. In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

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#13. If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.

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#14. The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.

Steve Maraboli

#15. My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

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#16. I'm not recognised much at all.

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#17. When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

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#18. I'm rubbish at Twitter.

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#19. A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.

Brahmagupta

#20. Some secrets
are better left kept.

Ellen Hopkins

#21. As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

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#22. No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character.

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#23. I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.

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#24. In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

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#25. We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

Rabindranath Tagore

#26. I certainly never saw myself as posh.

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#27. I'm from Southampton.

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#28. When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

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#29. I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

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#30. Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.

Gloria Gaither

#31. The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

Sol Luckman

#32. The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

Martin Luther

#33. Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

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#34. I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

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#35. I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

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#36. We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.

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#37. I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

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#38. I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

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#39. Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

Doug E. Fresh