Quotes by Olivia Colman - Page 2

I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Lovely
Shooting
Alike
Comedies
Crying
Dramas
Enjoying
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Extraordinary
Fit
Middle Aged
Mold
Powerful
Marvel
Middle-Aged Women
Superpowers
Though
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Appreciation
Earliest
Woke
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Equality
Demand
Deserve
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Auditions
Being Real
Test
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This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Embarrassed
Lovely
Mad
Shock
Sound
Time Always May
Assume
Time May Always
Terribly
Recognized
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After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Time Long Long Time
Offered
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Girl
Academic
Laughing
School
Ape
Badly
Bee
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I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'
Olivia Colman / Actress
Cleaning
Mum
Anything Else
Suppose
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You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Cinema
Mean
Mouths
Never Forget
Breaking
Minute
Mouth
Nil
Thousands
Waves
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Smile
Awe
Lovely
Made
Said
Best Always Me
Anyone
Ever
Godfather
Him
Smiled
Teenagers
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Horse
Mum
Nurse
Nursing
Nursing Home
Passion
Progression
Wow
Picture
Love Home Myself
Cart
Geriatric
Natural Progression
Picturing
To Love
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I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Enormous
Lovely
Babies
Bet
Boys And Girls
Teenagers
Youngest
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Auditions
Being Real
Honestly
Memorizing
Real
Seems
Terrible
Thinking
Trying
Actor
Good Me Feel
Far
Maybe
Rather
Script
Test
Worked
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Enormous
Norfolk
Surprise
Damaged
Homes
More And More
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I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Cry
Rubbish
Carried
Magical
Same Thing
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I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Cry
Dramatic
Odd
Real Life
Life Good Me
Cries
Hard Thing
Odd Thing
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