Olivia Williams Quotes

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• When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

  Olivia Williams

  Play, Different, Roles

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

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• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  Olivia Williams

  Fun, Worry, Age

  "Portrait of the Artist: Olivia Williams, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

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  Parent, Supportive, Mines

  "Olivia Williams: My family values". Interview with Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I love the ups and downs and the eccentricities of my career. The worst movies have produced some of the best friendships.

  Olivia Williams

  Worst, Ups & Downs

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

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  Lunch, Tents, Three

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• I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

  Olivia Williams

  Eye, Artist, Trying

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• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  Olivia Williams

  Play, Acting, Done

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• Working with Roman Polanski is funny. It's like anything in life - someone warns you that something's going to be amazing or difficult or awful, and you say, "I can do that. I can cope with that." And then when you're in the middle of it, it may be joyful or tricky, but it's never difficult in the way you think it's going to be difficult.

  Olivia Williams

  Thinking, Joyful, Tricky

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  Olivia Williams

  Children, Confusion, Choices

  "Olivia Williams: 'It can be unnerving working for Polanski'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2010.

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• I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

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  Office, People, Lovely

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• I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

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  Careers, Voice, Feet

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• Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it was quite a genial set The Ghost Writer, but the weather and the colors and the actual surroundings were oppressive. But it was a created atmosphere. What was so striking is that Roman Polanski had his crew from The Pianist, and we were shooting in Berlin, so there were German and Polish and French people, and I was just sort of enjoying being in this mix of people, all kind of rubbing along together. That felt good.

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  Men, People, Atmosphere

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

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  Long, Parent, Happy Marriage

  "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

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  Husband, Father, Character

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• I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

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  Kissing, Lucky, Three

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• I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

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  Crazy, Different, Accepted

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

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  Way, Pressure, Projects

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

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• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

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  Art, Children, Careers

  "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  Olivia Williams

  Wrinkles, Getting Older, Skins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The phrase you usually hear after a cut is "That was great. Perhaps we could have another go. Maybe try it this way." Even that much direction is prefaced with a lot of praise and encouragement. It's quite like how you deal with toddlers: positive reinforcement, and then a little suggestion that you might want to try something different. Roman Polanski will stop the take and shout, "No, no, no!" Which is somewhat alarming the first time it happens.

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  Encouragement, Cutting, Trying

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

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  Mother, Memories, Father

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• The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

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  Christmas, Husband, Week

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• The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

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  Daughter, Mother, Breathing

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• I was lucky, because Ewan McGregor had already been shooting with Roman Polanski for about a month before I got role. And he did a faultless impersonation of what it was going to be like. So when direction happened, it was like, "Oh yeah. That's what Ewan said was going to happen." And so it was a little bit less debilitating than it might have been.

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  Lucky

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My analysis of the situation was that Roman Polanski wasn't trying to break us down or get a performance out of us by destroying us. He was absolutely, very simply, trying to recreate this clear picture in his head. And the pictures he creates are absolutely perfect, and they are exactly what he saw in his head.

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  Perfect, Trying, Break

  Source: film.avclub.com

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