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" It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American. "
David Thewlis
Odd
American
Daughter
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" I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. "
David Thewlis
Through
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Coincidences
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Book
Media
Only
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Good
Think
Me
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Will
Monday
London
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Morning
Work
American
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Time
Wait
Nice
" 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.' "
David Thewlis
Bed
Wife
Sometimes
" I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite. "
David Thewlis
Anything
Men
Country
" It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it? "
David Thewlis
Rush
Ambition
Film
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Death
Job
Fear
" I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record. "
David Thewlis
Must
Might
Phone
" I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes. "
David Thewlis
Against
People
Doing
" In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.' "
David Thewlis
Fire
Read
" I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night. "
David Thewlis
Television
Night
Theatre
" I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit. "
David Thewlis
Live
People
Think
" 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
Next
" The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. "
David Thewlis
Done
Best
You
" 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. "
David Thewlis
People
Choose
Say
" One can only improvise what one knows. "
David Thewlis
Only
Knows
Improvise
" Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. "
David Thewlis
Going
Down
House
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Learning
Up
Down
" You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies. "
David Thewlis
Movie
Just
Movies
" Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous. "
David Thewlis
Keep
Going
Phone
" No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. "
David Thewlis
Never
Tree
Beautiful
" 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
" I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh. "
David Thewlis
Back
People
Own
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Time
Family
Home
" 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
Me
" 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. "
David Thewlis
Drama
Things
Know
" I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows. "
David Thewlis
Go
Art
Guy