Pete Postlethwaite Quotes

When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

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• 'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Doing
  • Content
  • Digital

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Israel
  • Critical
  • Policies

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

  

  Barney Ross
  • War
  • Rest
  • Surrender

• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Death
  • Determined

• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Last

• I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Style
  • Quality
  • Try

• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Way
  • Me
  • Fire

• People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thought

• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Way
  • Always
  • Camera

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Support
  • Human
  • Human Rights

• Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Intelligent
  • Intention

• One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Great
  • Today

• I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

  

  David Sedaris
  • People
  • True

• I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.

  

  John McEnroe
  • People

• You don't need to hire a dog therapist, you just need to wake up at 7 am and open the fucking door!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Up
  • Dog
  • Door

• When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

  

  Pete Postlethwaite
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