I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got ‘Alexander’; I thought, ‘Ooh, this is exciting,’ but after I got home, I looked back and thought, ‘That was an incredible experience.’ I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was. Ed Oxenbould Read Quote
As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, ‘If I was a slave, I wouldn’t have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.’ And it’s like, sure, it’s a very easy thing to say. Sterling K. Brown Read Quote
Once you believe in yourself, you can pretty much do whatever you want in my opinion, so that is the main thing. Lonzo Ball Read Quote
I found it personally really difficult to admit to myself that I was struggling sometimes, but once I had the feelings and I knew I could not sit with them any longer, I sought the help I needed. Karen Bardsley Read Quote
I didn’t know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn’t really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You’d see more talent. Dorothy Hamill Read Quote
I’m reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don’t think has anything to do with fiction. Ned Beauman Read Quote
My size works against me as well, as some players I would just touch and they would fall over to get a free kick. Adebayo Akinfenwa Read Quote
