Penelope Wilton Quotes

#1. I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

John Hurt

#2. I don't really care any longer what other people think.

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#3. You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

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#4. I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.

Jason Aldean

#5. I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

Jo Brand

#6. I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.

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#7. I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

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#8. Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

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#9. You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

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#10. Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

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#11. I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

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#12. In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

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#13. Some people will never change.

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#14. Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.

Thomas Sowell

#16. The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

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#17. I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

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#18. I'm not the perfect girl but I am worth your time I am a girl who will care, love, and hold u no matter what ... I can be anything u want me 2 be I will change everything just to have a chance with u because how could someone like me get a guy like u

Sereana Crowley

#19. The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

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#20. I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

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#21. I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

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#22. She'd been having a lot of trouble sleeping through the night lately, probably because she was napping a lot during the day. Or was she napping a lot during the day because she wasn't sleeping well at night?

Lisa Genova

#23. I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.

Usain Bolt

#24. Delighted of course. It will only be a very scratch meal - just the sandwich crusts and broken meringue-shells and what's left over. Yes, isn't it a perfect morning?

Katherine Mansfield

#25. I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

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#26. I have spent my whole life educating myself.

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#27. I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

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#28. For the second time this week, I felt like Alice in Wonderland, about to fall down a pit, a new adventure forced upon me.

Gena Showalter

#29. It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

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#30. I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

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#31. When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

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#32. You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

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#33. It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

Steven Kotler

#34. We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

Terence McKenna

#35. People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

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