Elliot Cowan Quotes

#1. I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.

Elliot Cowan

#2. I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.

Karen Marie Moning

#3. What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

Elliot Cowan

#4. Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

Elliot Cowan

#5. As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

Elliot Cowan

#6. Plant spirit medicine is the shaman's way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.

Elliot Cowan

#7. I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown ... Please don't dig them out!

Elliot Cowan

#8. One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

Ellen DeGeneres

#9. I only have eight jokes, but I can do 'em over a two-hour period of time.

Ron Shock

#10. Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.

Elliot Cowan

#11. I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

Jeff Bridges

#12. I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.

Elliot Cowan

#13. At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.

Elliot Cowan

#14. I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

Gillian Flynn

#15. There may indeed be more to life than a pot of cheese, a garden, a few friends; but these things, at least, may be a pretty good start.

Will Buckingham

#16. What did you expect? Tsukuru asked himself. A basically empty vessel has become empty once again. Who can you complain to about that? People come to him, discover how empty he is, and leave. What's left is an empty, perhaps even emptier, Tsukuru Tazaki, all alone. Isn't that all there is to it?

Haruki Murakami

#17. It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

Taylor Hanson

#18. I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

Elliot Cowan

#19. I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

Elliot Cowan

#20. I dare you to stand out.

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