Kelly Macdonald Quotes

• I don't think you can be involved in film and not be a fan of theirs. The one that I just go back to and can watch anytime it's on TV and I'll watch to the end, is Fargo. I think it's, like, a perfect film, it's genius.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Thinking, Perfect, Fans

  Interview with Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. January 15, 2008.

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• It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

  Kelly Macdonald

  Girl, Play, Comforting

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm no good at anecdotes.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Anecdotes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm so not a celebrity.

  Kelly Macdonald

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Strong, Character, Different

  "Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com.

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• A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.

  Kelly Macdonald

  New York, Moving, Home

  "Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.

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• L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

  Kelly Macdonald

  New York, Long, Never Quit

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Years, Impact, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's just the way I'm made. I do feel confident in what I do. It doesn't always work out 100% of the time, but generally I think I can do it quite well. But the other part of my job is doing the press and stuff. And I'm rubbish at that. I'm really not good at that at all - this quite important part of what I do.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Jobs, Thinking, Work Out

  "Cinema's best-kept secret". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2009.

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• It can get a bit boring working on accents.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Boring, Accents, Bits

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Done, Tvs, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Naughty, People, Stories

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• I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Book, Order, People

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Superhero, Harness, Terrible

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Successful, Long, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Roles, Brooding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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