Bertie Carvel Quotes

I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.

Bertie Carvel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 6, 1977

Topics

LifePositiveWorkGoodDayControl

I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

John Abercrombie

MusicTimeTogetherSchoolBrand

Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.

Andy Dunn

GoodBusinessPeopleBooksWhoRead

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

MindHellHeavenPlaceOwnMake

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Michael Ignatieff

HouseMoreOrderHoldSovereignty

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

Amy Tan

LifeFatherMotherMeBrainAmerica

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

Tommy Caldwell

ClimbFeetStandYouLookFind

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

Ron Perlman

YouBackCornerCatBigGoing

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.

Ry Cooder

GoodAloneBeautifulGreatMusicians

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Mason Cooley

Self-LoveSelf-CenteredEqually

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

Michael Moore

SoulMeAmericanBornCountryRace

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.

Jean Chatzky

ThinkFinancialPictureBudgetYou

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

Ashton Kutcher

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