Maxine Peake Quotes

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

Maxine Peake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 14, 1974

Topics

CharacterEgoThinkSometimesMore

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

John Bercow

LyingPunishmentCommitteeAbuse

You've got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body's doing. It's about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

Michael Cudlitz

MindMovingDoingAttentionBody

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

Michael Douglas

DayMeWaitThoughtSomeoneCamera

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Rod Taylor

WisdomDayI AmMeFeetArtist

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

PassionLawFreeReason

Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations.

Synyster Gates

RainTogetherFightWarBetterGo

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Thomas Carlyle

GreatDifferenceBetweenUnconscious

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

LoveFriendsSomeoneYouWantMiles

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

Kristen Wiig

MyselfPeopleMeComedyActorSee

I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

Hozier

FaithReligionQuiteThoroughly

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

HappinessDependInwardDoesOutward

You can't change the past with a couple good months.

Giancarlo Stanton

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