David Thewlis Quotes
That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing.
Quotes to Explore
-
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
-
I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
-
Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
-
I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
-
I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
-
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
-
Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
-
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
-
My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
-
When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
-
My daughter loves singing above all else.
-
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
-
I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
-
'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
-
I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.
-
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
-
My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
-
If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
-
I used to think the store detective had followed me all the way home and would knock on the door and go, 'Hello, is this your daughter? She's got three blue lipsticks and a moisturiser from Boots in her bag.' We just used to nick crap. Not even stuff we wanted.
-
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
-
At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.
-
We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.
-
That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing.
