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Creativity Quote by Charlotte Church

"Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it"

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There is something disarmingly practical in Charlotte Church framing a career pivot as a long, almost bureaucratic grind: “movie meetings” since she was 12 or 13. That detail does two jobs at once. It signals just how early fame industrializes a person’s curiosity, turning “I wanted to try it” into a decade-plus audition loop. It also quietly rebuts the idea that crossover moves are impulsive celebrity tourism. She’s been circling this door since childhood; the patience is part of the point.

The subtext is about permission. Church isn’t claiming artistic destiny, she’s claiming fit: “finding a project right for me.” In entertainment, where musicians are often cast as themselves with a different costume, “right for me” reads like a demand for agency - a refusal to be used as novelty casting. The naming of “Craig” (likely a writer or producer) adds intimacy and credibility: this isn’t abstract ambition, it’s an invitation that arrived in her hands.

Then she leans hard into specificity: Wales, “really British humour.” It’s a cultural positioning move. For an artist who’s been packaged for international consumption, rooting the excitement in place and tone suggests a return to home textures - regional, dry, a little sideways. “I just loved it” lands because it’s unpolished. After all the meetings, the industry language falls away and what remains is taste. That’s the emotional hinge: not reinvention as strategy, but delight as the deciding metric.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Church, Charlotte. (2026, January 17). Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/since-i-was-12-or-13-i-have-been-taking-movie-39697/

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Church, Charlotte. "Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/since-i-was-12-or-13-i-have-been-taking-movie-39697/.

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"Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/since-i-was-12-or-13-i-have-been-taking-movie-39697/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Charlotte Church

Charlotte Church (born February 21, 1986) is a Musician from Welsh.

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