#he

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #find #furiously #get #i

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#birthday #birthday party #child #feel #fine

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#get #i #national #place #terrifying

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#doing #fall #feel #further #fussy

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#get #ghosts #just #like #other

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#actor #admire #anonymous #being #explain

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#behind #curtain #divides #exciting #other

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#ahead #because #career #first #great

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily