Sam Riley Quotes

#1. Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital ... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again ... my duty was to compete with death.

Ala Bashir

#2. To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

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#3. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

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#5. Love proudly. Let it burn anything between you.

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#6. I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

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#7. I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

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#8. Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

Tupac Shakur

#9. Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

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#10. Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Vince Lombardi

#11. I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

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#12. I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

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#13. Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

Barbara Mandrell

#14. I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

Wilma Rudolph

#15. For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

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#16. I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.

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#17. As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

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#18. We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

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#19. 'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.

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#20. I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

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#21. It wasn't just that he didn't see the big picture, sometimes he saw a different picture entirely.

Neal Shusterman

#22. My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.

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#23. I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.

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#24. I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

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#25. The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.

George Carlin

#26. If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off."
I love you too."
- Saphira and Eragon

Christopher Paolini

#27. I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.

Sam Riley

#28. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Anonymous

#29. Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

Sam Riley