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Samuel Barnett Quotes

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: April 25, 1980

Topics

Past School Language Enjoy Early

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Good Decisions Doors Difficult

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love Truth Genius First Last

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

Father Music Village Street Jazz Up

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

Sea Identity City Green Strong Bad

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

Work Attitude Quality Career Will

Whenever my friend says something cool, and especially if my team says something, like a cool line in English, I'll write it down, and maybe I'll rephrase or use in a different way or something.

Friend Team Cool Down Way Write

I'm certainly not a hard liner, that's clear.

Miroslav Lajcak

Hard Clear Certainly

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Brian K. Vaughan

Wife Inspiration Everything Course

I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower - that wasn't your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn't really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.

Christy Turlington

Day Me End Doing Remember You

I never get recognised.

Never Get Recognised

When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.

Job People World Sometimes Meet

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Me Why Places Question Always Head

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