Maxine Peake Quotes

When I'm going to work, I often stop and wonder how I've got here. I don't mean literally, but just thinking back to when I first had the idea of being an actress, it seemed so unreal, so unlikely. People like me just didn't become actresses. Every new job I get comes as shock. It's almost as if I'm waiting to be found out.

Maxine Peake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I took one acting class as an undergrad, and I loved it. I was in a very avant-garde play at UCLA about a closeted, married homosexual. I played his father.

Maz Jobrani

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I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

Maurice Sendak

MeChristianNobodyOkayUpPark

Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

Matthew Desmond

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Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.

Stefon Diggs

SimpleWinYouNothingMeanLine

In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.

Tom Hiddleston

TimeMeHairShortEnoughLook

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Tom Stoppard

ImportantNothingAnythingBeing

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

Roger Mahony

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Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?

Ronen Bergman

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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Ross MacDonald

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Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for.

Mary Bono

FuturePeopleBelieveLongPerson

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

Luke Bryan

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As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

Louis Bacon

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