Jo Bell Quotes

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Dancing is like riding a bike.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.

I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

I really learned how to improvise at the Groundlings.It's something I've always loved to do. For some reason it feels more honest at times.

It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

So much of performing is a mind game.

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

We live in the least ugly time in history.