John Thaw Quotes

#1. I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He's taller than me and blond. But when I see Lewis walk into a room with John Thaw, it's like my son has just come onto the screen. That's very strange indeed!

Kevin Whately

#2. If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.

John Thaw

#4. I'm not an instinctive actor.

John Thaw

#5. Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

John Thaw

#6. I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

John Thaw

#7. I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.

Cherie Blair

#8. He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her..

Tina St. John

#9. Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

Eleanor Brown

#10. We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.

John Hodgman

#11. There is no more final end than death.

John Thaw

#12. We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

John Thaw

#13. Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.

Emilie De Ravin

#14. Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

John Thaw

#15. My boyfriend is a rock god baby
(and not kiss-of-death(sorry))

Rachel Caine

#16. Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Anne Sexton

#17. I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

John Thaw

#18. Courage has a brutal core.

Ciaran Carson

#19. Time had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow to its original course

Haruki Murakami

#20. We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

John Thaw

#21. You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Malcolm X

#22. The All is in all,and all is in The All.

David V. Gaggin

#23. You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

John Thaw

#24. When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

John Le Carre

#25. In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

John Thaw

#26. I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

John Thaw