Olivia Colman Quotes

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• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There…
• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
• I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
• I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
• I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
• The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are…
• I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel…
• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel…
• If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste.…
• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a…
• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things…
• In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought…
• This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely…
• You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough…
• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

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