Chuck Thompson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
-
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
-
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
-
You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
-
I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
-
Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.
-
You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
-
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
-
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
-
Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
-
I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
-
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
-
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
-
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
-
Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
-
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
-
'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
-
All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
-
Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.
-
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
-
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
-
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
-
Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?
-
No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
