"I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain."

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Source : "'Sometimes I think this is so undignified'". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.

Emily Mortimer

#Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.”
“There is sexism -- I'm not denying its existence. But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'”
“I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.”
“The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.”
“Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!”
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
“Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.”
“It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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