Rose Leslie Quotes

#1. American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance ... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Jackie Chan

#2. With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

Rose Leslie

#3. I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

Rose Leslie

#4. It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

Rose Leslie

#5. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robert Browning

#6. I loved my experience on 'Downton Abbey.' We shot it in six months, and it was the first time I'd ever been on TV, and I was surrounded by my friends. It was a wonderful, wonderful time.

Rose Leslie

#7. Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

William Wycherley

#8. It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.

Rose Leslie

#9. Cut word lines - Cut music lines - Smash the control images - Smash the control machine - Burn the books - Kill the priests - Kill! Kill! Kill!

William S. Burroughs

#10. Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

Rose Leslie

#11. I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

Jason Mraz

#12. I remember loving 'Braveheart,' and I still do! It was one of those films my family had on video and we watched over and over again.

Rose Leslie

#13. I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

Rose Leslie

#14. There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

Rose Leslie

#15. I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

Rose Leslie

#16. Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.

Zadie Smith

#17. So many people out there can probably sing very good - all they need to do is just drop their inhibitions. That's why most people do their singing in the shower.

Gregg Allman

#18. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Rose Leslie

#19. I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.

Rose Leslie

#20. See the world from another perspective and things would be simple.

Vikrmn

#21. We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.

Monica Crowley

#22. When I left 'Downton Abbey,' it hadn't yet taken off and become the phenomenon that it is, to this day. That all happened after I left. But, it was fabulous to be a part of it and to be a part of the cast. We had an absolute ball!

Rose Leslie

#23. The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

Rose Leslie

#24. It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.

Alvin Lee

#25. Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

Rose Leslie

#26. I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

Rose Leslie

#27. I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

Rose Leslie

#28. The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

Vy Higginsen

#29. I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

Judy Davis

#30. They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

#31. I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

Rose Leslie

#32. You read my Cosmo?"
"I read all of your magazines. I took all the love quizzes and pretended I was you answering the questions."
"How did I do?"
"You cheated," I said.

Michael Chabon

#33. I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that.

Rose Leslie