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Clive Standen Quotes

I hope to be acting until I am 90.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: July 22, 1981

Topics

Hope I Am Acting Am Until

I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium.

Positive Experiences Horrible Well

Some of those early roles were unactable. Even Laurence Olivier couldn't have done anything with them. The dialog ran to cardboard passages such as, 'I love you. You can rely on me, darling. I'll wait.' It was all I could do to keep from adding, 'With egg on my face.'

Love I Love You Me Wait Face You

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

Time Memory Me Start Universe Sand

You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.

Job Writing Control Book Worry You

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Work Romantic I Am People Me Think

If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.

You Try See Coming Being Avoid

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

Life Growth Progress Think Grow You

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

Decision Money Result Short-Term

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

Sad Happy People Me Building Deep

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

Life Live Die Long Healthy Want

If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.

Woman Man Angry Dangerous Totally

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

Love Learn You Down Risk Never

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