David Suchet Quotes

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

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• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Alcohol

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Should
  • Place
  • Policy

• I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Really
  • Chocolate
  • Cookies

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Want
  • Weekend

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Beginning
  • Painting
  • End

• At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Age

• I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Never
  • Person
  • Calm

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Red

• I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Age
  • Teenager
  • Bitter

• She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

  

  Elizabeth Montagu
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life

• When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

  

  David Suchet
  • Great
  • School
  • May