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" 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?' "

David Thewlis

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" I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit. "

" 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

" 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. "

David Thewlis

Flight

Right

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course. "

" No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. "

" I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work. "

" 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. "

" I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh. "

" I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.' "

" 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

" 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 am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows. "

David Thewlis

Art

Guy

" I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything. "

David Thewlis

Fun

Number

" Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath. "

" '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

" You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go. "

David Thewlis

You

Look

" 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. "