Pete Postlethwaite Quotes

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Want
  • Software
  • Box

• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Art
  • Space
  • Best

• It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Good
  • Model
  • Horse

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Friend

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • You
  • Said

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Enjoy

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Evidence
  • Absence

• My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Up
  • Time
  • Career

• The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

  

  James Franco
  • Work
  • Art
  • Guy

• I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

  

  Allen West
  • Black
  • Wind

• It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Great
  • Real
  • Comedy

• I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

  

  Debra Winger

• To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

  

  Mark Mothersbaugh
  • Book
  • Rest

• I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

  

  Pete Postlethwaite
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different