Robert Powell Quotes

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

Robert Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 1, 1944

Topics

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I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

Jim Rash

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It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.

Jo Brand

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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

John Gerzema

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I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Andrew Scott

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If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'

John McEnroe

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

Sophia Amoruso

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My filing system is messy but orderly.

Tony Benn

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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Tony Gilroy

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If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

Robert Forster

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Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.

Robert Carlyle

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