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.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Couple
  • Makeup
  • Cry

• 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.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • High
  • Light
  • Focus

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Think
  • Pretty

• What you guys want, I'm for.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Want
  • You
  • Guys

• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Strong
  • Values
  • Management

• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Creative
  • Individual
  • Genius

• Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Moral

• And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Up
  • Night
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Fall
  • Fly

• Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

  

  Jason Alexander

• To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Money

• The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Travel
  • Horse

• A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman. As a result, we have the capacity to connect the world's payment systems for the first time.That's a big deal.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • God
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Auto

• When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Manager

• You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their souls they refused to do so, considering it a monstrous indulgence and a waste of money!

  

  Sarah Ferguson
  • People
  • Soul
  • Strange

• Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Foolish
  • Vain
  • Wicked

• Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Trust
  • Confidence
  • Habit

• 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.

  

  David Thewlis