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Bertie Carvel Quotes

I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Theatre Friends Acting Prejudice

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Best Name Go Crime Fiction Compete

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

Plants Rest Ignore Perfect Human

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

Talking Single Location Standing

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

Great Past Me Rock And Roll Know

I wish I'd played Coriolanus.

Wish I Wish Played

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.

Good Boss Fun Outfit Nice Kind

It's taken me a long time to enjoy shopping. As a plus-size girl, you walk into a store, and it can sometimes be like a designer doesn't know you exist. It's become a fun treasure hunt.

Girl Time Walk Fun Me Shopping

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.

Character Reading Someone You Table

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.

Focus Creative Financial Engineering

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Time People Think Feel Remember You

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

American Watch Idol Stuff Any

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

Friendship You Try Something Soon

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