"I'm not playing a character. What I'm doing though is taking the worst, most shameful, peculiar, or troubling aspects of my personality. So there are elements of me that are not there. The happy version of me is not really in the show, because there's nothing funny about being happy. So it's more like I'm poaching on the funniest parts of me rather than actually creating some other character."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Simon Amstell

#Character Quotes #Personality Quotes #Worst Quotes

“"The main thing is to play your heart out and whatever helps you to do that is the right way".”
“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”
“The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me...”
“The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.”
“I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.”
“What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books weâ€™ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.”

Source : Gabriel Zaid, Natasha Wimmer (2003). “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books Incorporated
“The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.”

Source : "New York Jury Convicts Three Officers on Charges Related to Torture of Abner Louima". "World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2000.
“Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.”

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