Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

~ Stephen King

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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

~ Charlie Chaplin

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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

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Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

~ Emma Thompson

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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

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Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

~ Ewan Mcgregor

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Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

~ Emma Thompson

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I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

~ Emma Thompson

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(On period costume posture coaching:)We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

~ Emma Thompson

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TV stars are cool. Even if their characters are less than admirable, they come across as somehow sympathetic, maybe even neighborly. They are, after all, people you invite into your home every week. If you don't like them, you won't watch them.Movie stars, by contrast, are hot. They have to blaze so fiercely that they fill a screen forty feet high and demand the attention of a crowded theater.That's why very few TV stars have graduated successfully to features. It requires not only different skills but a different personality. You have to go from amiable to commanding.Likewise, some movie stars are simply too big for television. Jack Nicholson is riveting on-screen, but you wouldn't want him in your living room week after week. The television simply couldn't contain his personality.

~ Walter Jon Williams

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