Thursday, October 30, 2008

don't say anything if you've nothing nice to say

School was slack.
I wasn't even paying any attention to Ms Wong lahh.

After school was supposed to go for the History Museum thingy, but in the end I decided to go for Acceleration self-practice.
It was.. tiring?
Definitely not as tiring as last time.
But still tiring.
LOL.

Still don't even know where we'll be performing at.
-.-

Mr. Pattison's quotes:




"My favorite teacher was probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages of nonsense and she'd still mark it. She was a really amazing teacher."

"We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!"

"[Drama school] was a social thing. I literally went there 100 per cent to meet these girls sitting at the next table."

"I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said "Son, that is where you need to go."

"[I picked out] the most ridiculous, extravagant clothes - they looked really good in the shop. And then I put them on and I thought: you look such an idiot."

"Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a turning point as I moved to a mixed school and then I became cool and discovered hair gel."

"In England if you want to look rough, you go out and get really drunk and come in looking really hungover, but if you do that in America, it's like, have you got a drinking problem?"

"American’s fine, but I’ve never really been a big one for accents. Whenever I try to do any accents it ends up being a sort of Jamaican-Russian hybrid."

"I did a tiny amount of work on Vanity Fair which doesn't quite match the standard of Harry Potter... oops... don't put that, sorry, what was the question?"

"I've changed so much. I'm not nearly as cocky as I was, I was a real prat for the first month. I didn't talk to anyone. I just drank coffee and told everyone I was 24 and this famous theatre actor just back from South Africa."

"The day before I was just sitting in Leicester Square, happily being ignored by everyone. Then suddenly strangers are screaming your name. Amazing."

"I was actually having nightmares about [the premiere] for months in advance."

"As Dan was doing school at the time I was just sitting by myself for ages and at the time I wanted to be taken really serious as an actor so I used to just sit around just drinking coffee all day and trying to look really intense"

"There were a couple of times where you think you're swimming towards a guy with a breathing apparatus and then you find it's just something in the water and you're like [imitates freaking out] and then you just know what to do and they film your stupid face just screaming underwater and then everyone starts laughing and it's just like, 'Ah, great!'"

"I was quite intimidated by Ralph Finnes. I didn’t really talk to him while I was going Harry Potter and the only thing I did with him was when he stepped on my head. Then I went to this play and he was there. And this girl said, ‘you’ve worked with Ralph Finnes haven’t you, Robert?’ and I was like, ‘well, no…’ and Ralph said, ‘yes, I stepped on your head.’ And that was the extent of our conversation."

"[The cemetery scene] was the bit I was most looking forward to doing. You don't really get to die that often, you know?"

"I think Dan could steal anybody’s girlfriend. If I was a girl I’d go with Dan."

"I think the yule ball is more attractive to the girls who read it, I never really thought "Oh I get to go to the ball!"

"I went to one of these signing conventions. It was one of the most interesting experiences I’ve had. It was so strange that people would pay for autographs. You keep thinking you should do a little dance for them as well or something."

"It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the moment, I was just kind of aimlessly wandering around London and these two guys who were about 30 came up and asked for my autograph. I was really quite proud at the time, and they wanted to take photos and stuff. And then they were sort of wandering around and I was kind of wandering around and I bumped into them about three times, and every single time their respect for me kept growing and growing and growing."

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