Jeremy Brett Quotes

#1. Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

Jeremy Brett

#2. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.

Aristotle.

#3. I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

Rahul Gandhi

#4. It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

Richard K. Morgan

#5. This means she's mine. No one touches what's mine. And they sure as fuck don't beat her, rape her and leave her broken. Did you see her fuckin' house?

Kristen Ashley

#6. You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

Jeremy Brett

#7. One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined ... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Jeremy Brett

#8. Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

Jeremy Brett

#9. Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

Muhammad Yunus

#10. Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#11. I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

Jeremy Brett

#12. I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

Jeremy Brett

#13. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous

Jeremy Brett

#14. I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

Jeremy Brett

#15. I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.

Jeremy Brett

#16. To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Jeremy Brett

#17. The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.

Jeremy Brett

#18. They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

Jeremy Brett

#19. Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#20. The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain ... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Jeremy Brett

#21. Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

Jeremy Brett

#22. It has not been a successful life.'
'No
it has only been a beautiful one.

Henry James

#23. Gabe says you make a mean chicken."
Finn, who is sitting by the fireplace making smoke, comments for the first time. "Well, she certainly doesn't make a nice one.

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

Jeremy Brett