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All Quotes by author - David Thewlis
" After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week. "
Flight
Right
Next
" A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women. "
London
City
Financial
" And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed. "
Will
Monday
London
" 'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh. "
I Am
Am
Working
" As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do. "
Learning
Up
Down
" Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for. "
Relationships
Me
Know
" Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it. "
Days
Behind
Five
" Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable. "
Passion
Darkness
Dark
" For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys. "
People
Got
Hill
" I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company. "
Teacher
Work
Happy
" I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows. "
Go
Art
Guy
" I can remember, after I started doing films, my mum began going to more arthouse films. She went to see 'Edward Scissorhands' and phoned me up and said: 'What was that all about? He had scissors on his hands.' Good question. I think she should review films on Channel 4. "
Good
Think
Me
" I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art. "
Talent
Me
World
" I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant. "
Children
Woman
Child
" I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?' "
Time
Girl
Looking
" I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date. "
Baby
Born
Director
" I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films. "
Book
Media
Only
" I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was. "
Big
Expert
Way
" I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology. "
Think
Soul
Yourself
" I don't think they should trust anything that happens in 'Fargo' at all, and I'm sure 'Fargo' fans know not to make the mistake of trusting too much. "
Think
Know
Mistake
" I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. "
Death
Job
Fear
" I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in. "
Me
Lose
Play
" I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it. "
Morning
Work
American
" I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course. "
Acting
Course
London
" I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally. "
Drama
Things
Know
" I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver. "
Time
Wait
Nice
" I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting. "
Job
Challenge
Myself
" I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. "
Through
Acting
Coincidences
" I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. "
Like
Workaholic
Off
" I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit. "
Live
People
Think
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