Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.

Anne-Marie Duff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 8, 1970

Topics

ConfidenceRelationshipControlYou

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Jimmy Wales

ThinkRealityI ThinkExists

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

Jock Sturges

PeopleMePhotographBetweenVery

With Christopher Guest films, we have a lot of say.

Jennifer Coolidge

SayGuestLotFilmsChristopher

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Angelina Jolie

WorkWorldNewArtistsLikeAround

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

Ann Hood

HomeSchoolChurchBackStopWay

Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.

Stacy Schiff

WomenGreatTimeEnjoyYouEarly

There's no one type of film that I like watching. I loved 'Tropic Thunder' and the first 'Austin Powers,' and then 'The Godfather Parts I' and 'II,' 'There Will Be Blood,' Wes Anderson films.

Stana Katic

LovedBloodWillFirstWatching

As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely different genre than classical or opera. In terms of classical and opera, playing accompaniment, I'd say I was a 3.

Simon Helberg

MyselfSayOperaConcertPianoThan

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown

StepYouGoSaidBisexualMust

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Rita Rudner

WomenGodMenReachYouFeeling

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.

Mary Beard

HistorySpeakThinkSayTalkOut

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

Michael Sheen

PeopleMoreOpenThanMuchBritain

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