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" 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. "

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" I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long, because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family. "

David Thewlis

Time

Long Time

Long

" It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it? "

" Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance. "

David Thewlis

Performance

Interesting

" I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do. "

" I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy. "

" 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. "

" 'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that. "

David Thewlis

Naked

Kind

" The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another. "

David Thewlis

Seasons

Time

" We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it. "

" 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. "

" It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries. "

" The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency. "

" I started doing the big Hollywood stuff, and I realised, 'Oh, there's no rehearsal at all; you just turn up on the set, and sometimes you haven't even met the other actor, or the woman who's playing your wife, and you're suddenly in bed with them.' "

" Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it. "

" I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes. "

" What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm not turning into a werewolf. It's a silly thing to do, isn't it? It's what you do in the playground when you're kids - but actors just never stop doing it. "

" It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part. "

" When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...' "

David Thewlis

Stories

Saying

" What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today? "

" I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. "

" I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it inspiring. I get quite a lot of writing done out there. "

" Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. "

" 'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people, and I started doing a few American films of various levels of quality. "

David Thewlis

Quality

American

" Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience. "

" 'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh. "

David Thewlis

I Am

Working

" In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really. "

" 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. "

" I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more. "

" You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant. "

" People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along. "