Peter Ackroyd Quotes

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

Peter Ackroyd

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• Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Star

• Caffeine is a good thing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Caffeine
  • A Good Thing

• New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Culture
  • New
  • New York

• We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Like
  • Watch
  • Essential

• The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Successful
  • Actor
  • Lifestyle

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Writing
  • Part
  • Hotel

• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • College
  • Myself

• I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Want
  • Man
  • Wife

• I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • First

• So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Know

• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Children
  • America

• I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Think
  • Most

• I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Natural
  • Kid
  • Blonde

• The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Comedy

• Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Past
  • Forgiveness

• Younger guys are just too jealous.

  

  Adriana Lima

• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  

  Richard O'Brien
  • Culture
  • Influence
  • Britain

• I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

  

  Eli Roth

• I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Exercise
  • Courses

• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Flame
  • Petroleum
  • Lard

• In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

  

  Peter Ackroyd