"I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story."

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Source : "InDepth InterView: Lesley Nicol On DOWNTON ABBEY Season Four, Playing Mrs. Patmore, MAMMA MIA!, DOWNTON Musical? & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 23, 2013.

Lesley Nicol

#People Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Consider that you radiate. At all times. Consider that what youâ€™re feeling right now is rippling outward into a field of is-ness that anyone can dip their oar into. You are felt. You are heard. You are seen. If you were not here, the world would be different. Because of your presence, the universe is expanding.”
“You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if you're going to need government aid to take care of yourself ... It [2006 immigration bill] failed because it did not do what it said it would do... End the illegality first. Then we can wrestle with how to treat compassionately people who have been in America for a long time.”
“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.”
“Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.”
“I'm not trying to be the new anybody.”
“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
“You have to believe in yourself and you have to take risks. You know how people say 30 is new 20 and 40 is new 30? Well I think essentially what that's telling us is there are so many opportunities out there, you don't have to rush into something.”

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