David Thewlis Quotes
You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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What you guys want, I'm for.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
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The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.
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If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
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[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
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I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'
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People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.
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You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.
