Jane Horrocks Quotes

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

Jane Horrocks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 18, 1964

Topics

CharacterGreatPeopleYouChoose

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

ChildrenParentsImperfectionsSome

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

John Otto

MusicDevelopmentThemeAnywayAbout

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

Amy Ryan

ConfidenceFreedomGreatFindActor

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

John Shelby Spong

ControversialEvenScholarsIssues

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

Tom Peters

GrowthYouProfessionalWillLeave

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Mary Wollstonecraft

AgeKingsRightWithoutDivineMay

In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father.

Mike Myers

FatherLightSpiritualDeepQuest

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.

Marvin Hamlisch

JobPeopleMoonThinkSometimes

I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie behavior. It was great. Once you have 'The Cosby Show' on your resume, you can keep going.

Michael Weatherly

GreatKeep GoingSchoolMeBehavior

Who am I to say CM Punk is a joke?

Donald Cerrone

SayWho Am IJokePunkWhoAm

Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're not that good. It's stupid. There's such an incredible pool of talent out there, and they're still coming out of drama schools. People just need to take a leap of faith.

Deborah Mailman

GoodFaithTalentPeopleStupid

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

Chris Cleave

ResearchWritingStartGoOutGoing

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