"I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it."

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Source : "Alexander Siddig Is Part of Julian Schnabel’s Latest Cinematic Canvas". Interview with Ashley Wren Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

Alexander Siddig

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.”

Source : "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
“A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.”
“Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.”
“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
“All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.”

Source : "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2006.
“I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed to give me validation to the idea that I could write validly in earnest about my life with (my) very feminine point of view, and also that I could unapologetically explore the bad traits of my character (which I find to be more interesting to explore than the good traits), as well as explore other concepts that interest me like private vs public personas, age gap relationships, etc.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you.”

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