- Fascinate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
- Fashion Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failures are the people who never get off their bums.
- Goofing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all my 'Eddie the Eagle' goofing around before the camera while in training for the Calgary Olympics in 1988, I was never less than 100 per cent serious on every single jump.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020