David Thewlis Quotes
I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.
Quotes to Explore
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
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I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
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There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'
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I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.
