Michael Socha Quotes

#1. I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a big influence on how I was able to detach drama from the all-singing, all-dancing stigma.

Jack O'Connell

#2. Sometimes I like to go out; sometimes I like to chill and do nothing.

Michael Socha

#3. Your thought determines your mood and to a great extent, your mood determines your thought, though sometimes it is hard to determine someone's thought by the mood of the person! When the mind changes, something changes! When the mind changes, the face changes! Change your mind and see!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

Jodi Picoult

#5. The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.

Michael Socha

#6. Either you're one hell of an actress, or you're the dumbest person to ever walk the face of this planet.

Kimberly Spencer

#7. I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

Michael Socha

#8. Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey ...

Milorad Pavic

#9. Everything is a poison, nothing is a poison.
It is the dose that makes the poison

Paracelsus

#10. I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Michael Socha

#11. No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life ... until you have a child in your life.

Sandra Bullock

#12. When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how,
this is not a red herring; it's a map.

Gina Greenlee

#13. I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

Maajid Nawaz

#14. Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

Ori Gersht

#15. I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

Michael Socha

#16. Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#17. To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.

Michael Socha

#18. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

#19. He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

Leonard Cohen

#20. I love my Nike Air Max trainers. They're big and bulky and spanking - I can't be doing with grubby trainers.

Michael Socha

#21. An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

Michael Socha