Top 25 Pete Postlethwaite Quotes
#1. I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.
Sean Bean
#2. I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.
Ben Carson
#3. Evolution of knowledge is made towards simplicity and not complexity.
Daniel Marques
#4. I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
Pete Postlethwaite
#5. There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way ... like Holocaust deniers.
Pete Postlethwaite
#7. I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.
Sasha Grey
#8. It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life,
Pete Postlethwaite
#9. God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C.S. Lewis
#10. Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
Amelie Mauresmo
#11. When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.
Pete Postlethwaite
#12. The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.
Dick Armey
#14. I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.
Pete Postlethwaite
#15. I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
Pete Postlethwaite
#16. Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.
Pete Postlethwaite
#17. At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.
Pete Postlethwaite
#19. Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.
Pete Postlethwaite
#20. I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.
Pete Postlethwaite
#21. I remember kisses," said Slightly. "Let me see. Aye, that is a kiss. A powerful thing.
J.M. Barrie
#22. I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
#23. I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.
Pete Postlethwaite
#24. We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.
Norm Dicks
#25. Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
Hugh Grant
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