Kelly Macdonald Quotes

Watching films I'm in is always a bit odd, especially when I'm watching them for the first time with other people. It's hard not to see my faults.

Kelly Macdonald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: February 23, 1976

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We all don't feel like a million bucks, even if you're an actor. You just don't; not all of us feel like movie stars.

Jimmi Simpson

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There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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What's hurtful is when you have portrayals like, you know, when you have someone like Jared Leto who accepts an award for 'Dallas Buyers Club,' after playing a trans woman, standing in a full beard and looking fully cis male: it is communicating to our audiences that underneath all of that, it's still a man under that.

Angelica Ross

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Although I'm a scratch Ping-Pong player, there is no possibility of me beating a top professional.

Matt Kuchar

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Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.

Michael Arrington

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We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

John Phillips

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Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.

Lou Doillon

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Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Jon Ronson

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'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. 'The New Yorker' sent me nice notes, though - penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren't terribly encouraging.

Alice Munro

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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

William Law

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My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'

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There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

Penn Jillette

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