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If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who tal... - Jake Peavy

If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.

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When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

Especially with 'Be Alright', that's about a bunch of relationships and some people that I'd never even met, there was some stories friend and family had told me over the years, that I put into the song.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2', because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

Kyle MacLachlan

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

Sometimes it can feel like my bad days in Test cricket get amplified or singled out more than other players, while my good ones can fly under the radar. I'm not making excuses but over time this can get to you a little bit.

There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.

Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

The harmonica is a great instrument.

Toots Thielemans