Pete Postlethwaite Quotes
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
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Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.
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If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.
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I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
