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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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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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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She had been dressed in her sky-blue gown and had been suddenly almost terrible in her completeness-so different from the ragged serving girl who had slept on his shoulder. And yet, the very same girl had been inside that blue dress.
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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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When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.
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I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.
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Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
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I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.
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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
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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.
