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Tilda Swinton is a British actress known for her unique acting style and diverse roles. Born on November 5, 1960, she has been active in the film and theater industries since the 1980s. Swinton gained international recognition for her performances in films such as 'The Fish Child', 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', and 'The Tree of Life', earning her multiple Oscar nominations.

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“The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.”

People Knows Long Term Projects My Friends Long Term Hanging Out Dreamy

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“Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.”

People Children Easy Revenge Thrill Freeze Unkind

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“I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.”

People Stills Certain Speak Lazy Italian Slow Down Lazy People

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“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.”

People Thinking Feels Film Rooms Alive Stage Example Masters Like You Realms Just Being Temperature Hitchcock Sensational

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“I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral message because that would exclude so many people from feeling that it was their film and it's important for a piece of work to feel owned by every member of the audience.”

People Thinking Feels Kind Important Ideas Feelings Film Moral Audience Pieces Members Messages Resistance

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“I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.”

People Film Gone Studios

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“What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.”

People Facts Happens Film Rich Cameras Rich People Theatrical Opulence

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“Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.”

People Way Courses Conversation Sexuality

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“For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.”

People Two Sex Identity Contact

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“We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.”

People Giving Real Movement Determined Cinema Raw Food

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“The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.”

People Thinking Together Culture Speak Groups News Active Resistance Visible Sensibility Great News

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“I remember when I first started to be photographed, people couldn't understand how it was possible to go around with no eyelashes, no eyebrows. Now it's much more accepted for people not to wear eyelashes or lipstick or whatever they do, but then it was quite freaky. Um, a kind of boiled look.”

People Firsts Looks Kind Remember Accepted Remember When Eyebrows Lipstick Eyelashes Freaky

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“The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.”

People Looks I Can Problem Father My Family Mustache

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“Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.”

People Animal Teach Focus Honesty Enthusiasm

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“Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.”

People Mean Interest Challenges Animal Quiet Prove Disappear Hills Insatiable Rarity

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“How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?”

People Identity Expectations Settling

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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.”

People Trying Kind Sides Kindness Projects Victim Tables Extremes Stupidity Intense Sympathetic

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“If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.”

People Ifs Trying Hands Winning Accepting Loneliness Capitalism Convince

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Born: November 5, 1960
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 106

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