"I've been trying to find a redeeming feature……" — Ian McDiarmid
"I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera."
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15 Quotes by Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid has 15 quotes on this site.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short…
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Im the blackest villain of all time.
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To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go…
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At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge.
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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne,…
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Consistency is very important when you're making films.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming…
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If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the…
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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