Lennie James Quotes

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

Lennie James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 11, 1965

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Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Jimmy Connors

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I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.

Joe Gilgun

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People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.

Robert J. Shiller

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I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

Matthew Macfadyen

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You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.

Amandla Stenberg

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As a player, I'm going to do everything I can to help the organization as a whole. On the field, off the field, I'm going to do everything in my power.

Stefon Diggs

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The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Rattner

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Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

Simon Helberg

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Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Robert Andrews Millikan

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I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

Robert Caro

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It's not, 'I'll do this and make lots of money, and I'll be a star.' It's more, 'I know what art I want to make.'

Ruth Bradley

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Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Mike Schmidt

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