Carvel Quotes

#1. God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Adam Sandler

#2. I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.

Bertie Carvel

#3. Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

Samuel Pepys

#4. [Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.

James Goss

#5. The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

Bertie Carvel

#6. I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.

Bertie Carvel

#7. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Edward Young

#8. Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you're an arsehole, people don't want to work with you. You won't get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

Bertie Carvel

#9. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Laurence Binyon

#10. Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

Bertie Carvel

#11. Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.

Bertie Carvel

#12. When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.

Rumer Godden

#13. Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

Mariano Rivera

#14. I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

Bertie Carvel

#15. Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

Bertrand Russell

#16. Acting is a mysterious process.

Bertie Carvel

#17. I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.

Bertie Carvel

#18. It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Bertie Carvel

#19. I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

Timothy Ferriss

#20. some birds aren't ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright....

Stephen King

#21. By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Harrison Salisbury

#22. If as spiritual practitioners we ignore the discoveries of science, our practice is also impoverished, as this mind-set can lead to fundamentalism.

Dalai Lama XIV

#23. and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before.

Bram Stoker

#24. In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well ... nothing.

Phoebe Tonkin

#25. I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.

Bertie Carvel

#26. I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

Bertie Carvel

#27. I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.

Immortal Technique

#28. People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

Bertie Carvel