Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

Anne-Marie Duff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkThinkWeirdDemonsYouBack

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

John Bradshaw

LiveSoulClothesPlaceLostKid

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John F. Kennedy

PoliticsGovernmentBrotherGoWant

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

Andre Dubus III

StarsRedCrazyYouLookWonder

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Michael Emerson

MyselfBestThinkHelpGoWant

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

Steve Burton

CharacterSayLittleGetWould

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

Tom Stoppard

GratefulWaitingPlayHappenTurn

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Robert Fulghum

HeartSeriousTalkHumanVeryAbout

I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them.

Michaela Coel

LoveGlassesListeningLoseNeed

Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!

Monica Potter

GreatMottoThinkNewHealthySize

I don't care what I look like; it's how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, 'Oh, she's nice,' rather than, 'Oh, she's so pretty.'

Millie Bobby Brown

PeopleMeThinkCareLookNice

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Lord Byron

HateLookDownMankindMustWho

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

Chrissie Hynde

LegacyDoneAshamedThingsFilm

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