Brian Cox Quotes

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Brian Cox

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
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  • Birth: June 1, 1946

Topics

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As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Joanna Lumley

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The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.

Jennifer Coolidge

MenWomanControlThinkSexyFeel

My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.

Jeffrey Skoll

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Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

Robyn

FutureInternetSureStillVery

Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.

Dede Gardner

PeopleStoryInterestingWhyTell

'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

Colson Whitehead

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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Clare Boothe Luce

WomanDownOutHerKnockedMale

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Arnold Rothstein

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I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

Anushka Sharma

WomanStrongThinkEnoughChoose

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

Anne Reid

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Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Wole Soyinka

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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford

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