David Thewlis

Actor

1963-03-20

Books by David Thewlis

The Late Hector Kipling
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Shooting Martha
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Quotes by David Thewlis

I feel like I'm in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to look at his big, blank empty canvas. And in a way I am. Except that i'm not struggling. I'm Hector Kipling. I might be getting up at all hours of the night to look at my big, blank, empty canvas, but I am not fucking struggling.
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He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more
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I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.
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I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.
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I feel like I'm in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to look at his big, blank empty canvas. And in a way I am. Except that i'm not struggling. I'm Hector Kipling. I might be getting up at all hours of the night to look at my big, blank, empty canvas, but I am not fucking struggling.
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He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more
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I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
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In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.
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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.
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For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys.
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What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?
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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.
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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...'
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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.
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