Peter Baynham Quotes

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

Peter Baynham

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• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Hate
  • Weather

• It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Pride

• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • People
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Run

• I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Trade

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• Support for charities takes many forms. Some people give their money, some their spare time. I give my name and my voice. We give what we can to make a difference to the people and issues that matter to us. But what's most important, especially for celebrities, is giving our genuine commitment.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

  

  Ben Casnocha
  • Long
  • Goals

• Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Dying

• When you receive an education, you pass it on.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Education

• People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

  

  Peter Baynham
  • People
  • Music
  • Dark