Carice van Houten famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.
-- Carice van Houten

#Insecure #America #Doors
It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.
-- Carice van Houten

#Responsibility #Two #Half
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
-- Carice van Houten

#Play #Acting #Too Much
I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
-- Carice van Houten

#Thinking #Actresses #Intuitive
I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.
-- Carice van Houten

#Character #Able #Too Much
I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.
-- Carice van Houten

#Actors #Method #I Can
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.
-- Carice van Houten

#Country #Hero #Book
In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.
-- Carice van Houten

#Scene #Where You Are #Theater
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.
-- Carice van Houten

#Instinct #Theater #Feels

I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model.
On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.
America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Death is a door life opens.

Carice van Houten famous quotes

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