A Quote by Olivia

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

Olivia

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Actor Being Else Expert Someone Speaker Themselves

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Olivia
American - Singer
Born: January 18, 1981

I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!

Liam McIntyre

Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

Jonathan Gold

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.

Philip Kitcher

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

Bo Sanchez

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

Robert Altman

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.

Shirley MacLaine

a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.