Phil Daniels Quotes
My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
Quotes to Explore
-
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
-
My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
-
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
-
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
-
The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
-
When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
-
I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
-
Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
-
When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
-
When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
-
It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
-
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
-
If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
-
My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
-
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
-
You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
-
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
-
The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
-
Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.
-
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
-
I like Drake's stuff.
-
My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
