Quotes by Alex Sharp - Page 1

Be less afraid to be different.
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Be Different
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Broadway doesn't pay that much.
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Broadway
Pay
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I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.
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Math
Reading
Good Bad People
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I'm interested in so many different things and art forms.
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Different Things
Art Forms
So Many Different Things
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I got rejected from all the good drama schools first time.
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Good Drama
Rejected
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I haven't felt anchored my entire life. But I kind of like it.
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Anchored
Entire
Entire Life
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That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.
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Drawn
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I've always found it hard to do what I'm told - I'm not very good at conforming.
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Good Always Hard
Conforming
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I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.
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Achieving
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I can be rather obsessive - especially when it comes to breaking through to the next level as an actor.
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Next Level
Obsessive
Breaking
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As an actor, you spend years getting ready for an opportunity to arise, and when it does, you're ready for it.
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Opportunity
Arise
Ready
Actor
Spend
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To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.
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Acting
Found
Bit
Be Yourself
Often
Except
Give
Interview
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At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.
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Maths
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As an actor, I've been taught to just stay with your scene partner, and whatever they do, let it affect you, be spontaneous.
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Scene
Spontaneous
Taught
Actor
Affect
Stay
Partner
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Elle Fanning is my official stylist. If I'm buying a pair of sneakers or a suit, I just do what she tells me to do. She's my red carpet expert.
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Buying
Carpet
Red
Red Carpet
Sneakers
Stylist
Expert
Fanning
Official
Pair
Suit
Tells
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I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.
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Compassionate
Generous
Judgmental
Art Form
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You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.
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Danger
Fool
Good Job
Risk
Safe
Spectacular
Job
Absolute
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I spent the first seven years of my life in a caravan traveling around Europe and the United States because my parents were just obsessed with traveling.
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Life My Life Parents
Caravan
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I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
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English Literature
Gifted
Hooked
Struggle
Theatre
Academically
English
Maths
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I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.
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Body Language
Observing
Young Age
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It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.
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Life Good Important
Good Actor
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When I entered normal school, it was hard for me to adjust sometimes. I was so unused to just sitting down in a classroom and copying off the board - simple things.
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Classroom
Copying
Normal
Simple Things
Sitting
Adjust
Board
Entered
Unused
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Acting is a different beast on screen. I'm excited to explore that. But, of course, it's an honor to be part of the Broadway community. It's a dream just to be here.
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Dream
Acting
Beast
Broadway
Community
Excited
Honor
Course
Explore
Screen
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When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly powerful but is always going to create waves.
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Convey
Waves
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'To the Bone' is autobiographical. It's written and directed by a woman; it's starring all women, apart from me and Keanu, who are in lesser parts, and it's produced by women.
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Women Me Woman
All Women
Autobiographical
Bone
Directed
Lesser
Produced
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I'm saving money like there's no tomorrow because, when I was at Juilliard, I had so little. They gave me a full scholarship because I didn't come from a wealthy family or anything.
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Juilliard
Saving Money
Scholarship
Wealthy Family
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Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.
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Expecting
Juilliard
Teeth
Unemployed
Breaking
Neck
Decade
Hustling
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I'm pretty careful about making sure that when I choose to do something, it's for the right reasons and that I really connect with it and care about it. So if the right musical came along, yes, I would totally do it!
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Right Reasons
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I've been to the Met Ball and the Tonys, but Cannes is particularly huge. Every time at these big events, it's just - whoa. Because at the end of the day, I'm a guy from Devonshire who grew up on a farm who loves his dog.
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Cannes
Huge
Time End Of The Day Day
Ball
End Of The Day
Every Time
Farm
Particularly
Loves
Met
Whoa
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I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.
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Opening
Good People School
Picking
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I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.
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Controversy
Interesting
Opinion
Surround
Taboo
Topics
Less
Discussed
Goes
Hand
In My Opinion
Interesting Thing
Shadows
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Sometimes you catch people's eyes during the show, which is horrible and awkward. I can always see the people in the front row, and sometimes you get people who are fast asleep. Maybe they had a long day at work, but that's an expensive nap.
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Awkward
Expensive
Horrible
Long Day
Work Always Long
Asleep
Catch
Nap
Fast
Eyes
Front
Maybe
Row
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My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother - who was a teacher, so she home-schooled me - and then she would take me to the castle, and we would climb on it, and then I'd write creatively about it that night.
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Touching
Castle
Climb
Creatively
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