David Thewlis Quotes
After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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(Talking about American and British Language) You say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a fucking 'H' in it.
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Glad my name came up. Thank audience, mentor, all who made my workplace enjoyable.
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To the mouse, snow means freedom from want and fear. … To a rough-legged hawk, a thaw means freedom from want and fear.
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I was terrible at school.
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It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
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I will choose only the least harmful way for the country. And that is the greatest benefit I am conferring on the country by embracing Buddhism; for Buddhism is a part and parcel of Bhâratîya culture. I have taken care that my conversion will not harm the tradition of the culture and history of this land.'
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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
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After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.
