Tilda Swinton Quotes

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• I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

  Tilda Swinton

  Beautiful, Kindness, Collaboration

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• I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Distance, Believe

  "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.

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• It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

  Tilda Swinton

  Real, Comfort, Aliens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Soul, Firsts

  "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

  Tilda Swinton

  Dream, Adventure, Vision

  "Fictional character: Rebecca Dearborn". "Vanilla Sky", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.

  Tilda Swinton

  Loneliness, Winning, Hands

  "An elegant escape" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2003.

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• I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

  Tilda Swinton

  Inspiring, Women, Feminist

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• This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

  Tilda Swinton

  Meaningful, Kindness, Self

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• I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

  Tilda Swinton

  Bowie, Planets

  "The Oddly Comforting Daily Life of Tilda Swinton". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. April 11, 2014.

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• How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

  Tilda Swinton

  People, Expectations, Identity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.

  Tilda Swinton

  Honesty, Animal, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

  Tilda Swinton

  Ideas, Long, Transformation

  "31 Things We Learned On Marvel’s Doctor Strange Set". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Identity, Whole

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• Do you want a list of what my dogs taught me? Patience, perspective, joy, loyalty, the simplicity and presence of their joy. That's a really great daily reminder, bad stuff happens, difficult stuff happens and you take them out onto the beach and you go "OK, now I see". You tell them the current political situation in the world and they go "should we go for a walk?" And you go, right, that's the correct answer.

  Tilda Swinton

  Loyalty, Dog, Beach

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

  Tilda Swinton

  Ideas, Able, Appearance

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

  Tilda Swinton

  Dog, House, Hot

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• Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Identity, Sexuality

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

  Tilda Swinton

  Clothes, Looks, Next

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

  Tilda Swinton

  People, Way, Sexuality

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.

  Tilda Swinton

  Mean, Animal, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

  Tilda Swinton

  Soldier, Survival, Chance

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Humanity

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.

  Tilda Swinton

  Clothes, Naked, Right Now

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

  Tilda Swinton

  Children, Character, Dark

  Source: movieweb.com

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