Tatiana Maslany Quotes

I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

Tatiana Maslany

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 22, 1985

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Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children - therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.

Jennifer Egan

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If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

Andrew Shaffer

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I think yoga has given me better posture. People don't realise how strong it makes you. You have to use your body weight to hold yourself. As you get older, you're supposed to lift weights, but I find that kind of boring. Yoga is lifting my own body.

Andie MacDowell

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Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

Ann Hood

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Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

John Surtees

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I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.

Rita Ora

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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Michel de Montaigne

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Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

Mohsin Hamid

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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

Mindy McCready

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It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.

Jason Blum

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Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

Diane Neal

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There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

Chris Evans

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