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Mario Testino Quotes

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: peruvian
Birth: October 30, 1954

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Work Culture Beginning Society New

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

Better Doing Years Last Traveling

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Fear Alone Great Experience War Me

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

Eyes Me Remember Table Sweat Lying

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Vision Death Person Know She Dying

After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.

Me Letters Nothing He After Private

There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

Great Food Best Amazing Insanity

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

Mike Singletary

Learn You Move On Want Everything

What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.

People Listening Doing Find Hand

I don't make movies that make fun of anything.

Christopher Guest

Fun Movies Anything Make

My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.

Father Camera Photography Year Back

One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.

Love Good Me Night Advice Look

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

People Say Who He Oh Crook

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