- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go Quotes
Quotes on moving forward.
These quotes are about pushing something forward - a producer's refusal to let a project go, and the long chain of approvals a show has to go through before it airs. Related reading includes Back Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stage is such an investment, and it's so emotional that it's really hard to tell how that will go.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
- Free Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. I'd listen to 'Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow... Right!' and 'Wonderfulness,' which are two of his most famous albums. Then the next night, I'd flip them over, 'cause it was the old stackable turntable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shive, are working on this project called 'Generation Wild.' It's about getting people to realize that being outdoors is not scary - you can go on adventures like we do, in national parks, and practically in your own backyard.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020