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Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
When I first got a call for the movie, I couldn't believe that I am doing a film opposite Akshay Kumar. He is such a big superstar.
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
I really like lads and grew up with two brothers and all of their mates. I'm also close to several actors that I've played opposite.
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
Any actor that's like, 'I hate the fact that I'm getting all of this attention,' is a liar. Especially when it's from the opposite sex.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.
When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.
While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.
I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.
A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.
It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.
There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn't want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.