Quotes by Owain Yeoman - Page 1

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Reader
Voracious
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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Preconceptions
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I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.
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Clint
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood
Spielberg
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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Good Day
Good Good Day Day
Action Figure
Defy
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I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.
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California
If I Could
Wales
Weather
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Calm
Extremes
Logical
Work Business Great
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Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.
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Best Friend
Partner
Tolerant
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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Scope
Pilot
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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Goodness
Always Me Acting
Daniel
Me Always Acting
Huge Fan
Returning
Talks
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Aim
Typecast
Flips
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From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'
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Point Of View
Time Hope Great
Agent
Hope Time Great
Pilot
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Since I finished on 'The Mentalist,' I didn't need to be so near to the studio, so we decided to move a bit further out where you can get more house for your money, too. It definitely feels more like home.
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Finished
Further
Near
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A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
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Bali
Brad
Chef
Said
Yeah
Arm
Bit
Brad Pitt
Cause
God Know More
Friend
Mine
Pitt
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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American History
Civil War
Revolution
War History Great
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Battle
Cold
Crew
Ripped
Scene
Wales
Shirt
Tent
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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Bits
Comic
Ensemble
Relief
Lead Character
Supporting
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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Dramatic
Point Of View
Life Death Always
Bold
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Pirate
Love Movies Done
Love Movies Fun
Depp
Johnny
Jack
Johnny Depp
Reads
So Much Fun
Sparrow
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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Funding
States
University
Accountant
Myself Where Know
Banker
Myself Know Where
Ended
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