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" 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. "

David Thewlis

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David Thewlis

Performance

Interesting

" I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it. "

David Thewlis

Failure

Love

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

" 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. "

David Thewlis

Talent

World

" You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies. "

" 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. "

" I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night. "

" I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. 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. "

" I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was. "

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

" I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. "

David Thewlis

Workaholic

Off

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" I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite. "

" I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology. "

" 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. "

" I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don't know what went wrong with that. "

" I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world. "

" 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

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