Shimberg And Friel Quotes

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited. ~ Anna Friel

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays. ~ Garry Hynes

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year. ~ Anna Friel

We don't need "trip to heaven" books. We have an actual God-ordained vision of heaven and future events. ~ Todd Friel

Instead of beseeching men to be reconciled to God, we find ministers wasting their time in giving Sunday lectures about all kinds of subjects. Rome is burning and Nero is playing his fiddle. Souls are perishing and minsters are amusing them. ~ Todd Friel

There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry. ~ Anna Friel

I went on to propose that our own culture and the classical tongues made a happier conjugation [...] English, I suggested, couldn't really express us. ~ Brian Friel

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose. ~ Anna Friel

But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise. ~ Anna Friel

No matter how long the sun may linger on his long and weary journey, at length evening comes with its sacred song. ~ Brian Friel

I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party ... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody. ~ Brian Friel

Every atheist who believes in morality, gravity, and does math is a closeted believer. ~ Todd Friel

Some people struggle and fight so fiercely at one level of existence that they prevent themselves from moving to the next level of existence where the waters ~ John C. Friel

I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme. ~ Anna Friel

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. ~ Anna Friel

When we break a law (lie, steal, murder, fornicate, blaspheme, lust, hate, covet, gossip, dishonor authority) we are striking out at God's character and in essence saying, "I hate who you are." That is why sin is exceedingly sinful (Rom. 7:13). ~ Todd Friel

God created places and things in the Old Testament to teach us about Jesus in the New Testament. These pictures are so simple, even a child can understand them. God graciously babbled at us so we can learn complex truths. ~ Todd Friel

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size. ~ Anna Friel

But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of ... fact. ~ Brian Friel

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna. ~ Anna Friel

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that. ~ Anna Friel

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist. ~ Anna Friel

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support. ~ Anna Friel

The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real. ~ Brian Friel

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate. ~ Brian Friel

If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next? ~ Anna Friel

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play. ~ Anna Friel

The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in. ~ Anna Friel

Say anything at all – I love the sound of your speech. ~ Brian Friel

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out. ~ Anna Friel

When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it. ~ Anna Friel

In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny. ~ Anna Friel

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue. ~ Anna Friel

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. ~ Anna Friel

Come on man, speak in English.

For the benefit of the colonist?

He's a decent man.

Aren't they all at some level? ~ Brian Friel

Judge not lest ye be judged" has become the battle cry not only for biblically illiterate secularists, but for professing evangelicals as well. Postmodern hypersensitivity is not a malady merely for unbelievers; Christians are downright allergic to judging. ~ Todd Friel

Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it? ~ Brian Friel

We should always judge with a humble attitude acknowledging that any correct understanding we have of the Bible is a gift from God. ~ Todd Friel

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act. ~ Anna Friel

Never forget, God is more interested in our holiness than He is in our happiness. The next time you feel the sting of God's correction, ask yourself the question, "Of what do I need to repent?" When you do, God will forgive. That is the way He is. ~ Todd Friel

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before. ~ Anna Friel

Confusion is not an ignoble condition ~ Brian Friel

I've never been onstage in my life. ~ Anna Friel

I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man. ~ Anna Friel

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal. ~ Anna Friel

I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best. ~ Anna Friel

I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older. ~ Anna Friel

We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby. ~ Anna Friel

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors. ~ Anna Friel