Ian Holm Quotes

#1. I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

Ian Holm

#2. All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

Ian Holm

#3. I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

Ian Holm

#4. It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

Jeff Lynne

#5. We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

Margaret Thatcher

#6. The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it, he said.

Kate Chopin

#7. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Pearl S. Buck

#8. Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Ezra Pound

#9. Fireheart!" Ravenpaw meowed in delight. "Fireheart," Graystripe corrected him.

Erin Hunter

#10. Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.

Ian Holm

#11. His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time.

Stephen King

#12. It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.

Ian Holm

#13. Bite your teeth into the ass of life.

Ian Holm

#14. The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

Ian Holm

#15. From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

Kenneth R. Miller

#16. As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

Ian Holm

#17. Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

Ian Holm

#18. I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.

Lizzo

#19. 'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.

Ian Holm

#20. Remember that silence is golden

Lisa Kleypas

#21. We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#22. I married the kind of girl who can love somebody forever.

Scott Richards

#23. If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.

Ian Holm

#24. Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

Bill Frist