Denholm Elliott Quotes

#1. Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'

Mark Williams

#2. All Christians must be saints; and, if they come not under that character on earth, they will never be saints in glory.

Matthew Henry

#3. I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.

Denholm Elliott

#4. I think you can be terribly overexposed. I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre; it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again.

Denholm Elliott

#5. Is it colour?'
'Oh yes.'
'You don't let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.

Christopher Brookmyre

#6. When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.

Catherine Anderson

#7. I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

Anne Enright

#8. I'm often given parts that aren't as big as they are colorful, but people remember them. When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like 'Hamlet'.

Denholm Elliott

#9. The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.

Denholm Elliott

#10. Soon, the two of them would leave this spot ... walk into the house and into a whole changed world ...

Marisa De Los Santos

#11. Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Karl Marx

#12. It was on such a night as this that the unhappy things came about.

Richard Ford

#13. Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

Dexter Palmer

#14. Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

Slavoj Zizek

#15. I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.

Denholm Elliott

#16. I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.

Denholm Elliott

#17. 'Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.

Denholm Elliott

#18. Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#19. The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Denholm Elliott

#20. Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

Denholm Elliott