Tilda Swinton Quotes

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Tilda Swinton

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 5, 1960

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

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The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

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More and more, there are things in my life that I find hard to say. Like, 'David Bowie and Lorde were at my birthday party.' She's a phenomenal spirit.

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I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

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There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt - to me, anyway - is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity.

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My understanding is that it's quite difficult for actors in the theater to know anybody but actors in the theater. It's the whole concept of the amniotic fluid surrounding one industry, holding people in place. I've never had a season ticket. I'm always a tourist.

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I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

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One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.

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I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this.

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I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

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Oh, man, you won't hear me talking about the drudgery of making movies. I don't buy any of that. All those guys who made 'The Revenant,' they loved it. They wanted to make a film, and they were the happiest people around to be doing so.

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I find myself apologising for not being a proper actor. I never intended to be involved in the film industry and still do feel that, with the exception of a couple of brief skirmishes with the film industry.

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I'm a Marvel fan, and I think this particular world that 'Doctor Strange' goes into is really, really, really exciting. I'm really interested as both an actor and a fan to see what's done in this particular world. It's all about creativity. It's not about everything exploding at the end. It's about something very different.

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I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

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I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

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It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

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Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

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What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

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I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.

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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.

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