Miranda Otto Quotes

#1. Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

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#2. I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

Emily Blunt

#3. Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

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#4. It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

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#5. Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

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#6. I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

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#7. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

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#9. With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

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#10. I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

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#11. I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

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#12. As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

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#13. If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

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#14. I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.

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#15. The talent of the people in Brazil was extraordinary. I thought all of the hair and make-up was really fantastic. The aesthetic there is really something to behold. They just have such a great sense of taste.

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#16. You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

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#17. Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

Shalom Harlow

#18. I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

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#19. He was never good in a fight. Preferred to sleep off the anger and pretend that everything was fine in the morning.

Alessandra Torre

#20. Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

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#21. Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate

Prodigy

#22. I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

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#23. Every director is completely different.

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#24. There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

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#25. You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.

Nastassja Kinski

#26. Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

William Penn

#27. It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

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#28. Okay, maybe it didn't get that close and it didn't move that much, but it still came toward me, and if you've been chased by an alligator at any distance or speed, I don't think people should get all 'But how far was it? And how fast was it going?

Maureen Johnson

#29. If the current trend continue few percentage will be bible-believing

Sunday Adelaja

#30. Before I could purposefully kill the mood, Luke did it for me.
Fuck. You guys havin' a sit down with Darius or an orgy in reception?

Kristen Ashley

#31. It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

Charlie Kaufman

#32. The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

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#33. I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.

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#34. You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.

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#35. England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

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#36. Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Bruce Springsteen

#37. It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

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#38. I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

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#39. Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

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#40. Acting is a freelance career ... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

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#41. Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

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