Philip Glenister Quotes

#1. 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.

Richard Engel

#2. In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.

Adan Canto

#3. Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

Donalyn Miller

#4. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter ... or at least, most minds are ...

J.K. Rowling

#5. The anger was clearly real, though. It was in there, sloshing around, looking for the nearest hole to escape through.

Nick Hornby

#6. I didn't realize that it's true what they say, that when your heart is truly broken you can feel the moment it cracks. Until just now. I'm

Kristen Proby

#7. I didn't want to fight a guy from England. What if I lose? Not that English guys aren't strong, but who wants to get beat up by a guy with that voice? That's not the most masculine voice to take a beating to.

Jay Mohr

#8. First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.

Richard Ford

#9. When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.

Philip Glenister

#10. We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

Frances Moore Lappe

#11. If I could bleed, or sleep!
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!

Sylvia Plath

#12. My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we couldn't have two actors in the family because our parents would go mental. So I became a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and, one way or another, worked my way up to movie publicist.

Philip Glenister

#13. Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

William Faulkner

#14. Children change you. You have this overwhelming feeling of responsibility, of love - they're everything. They're yours. You know when you're cuddling them, cradling them, and you can smell their hair. I love that.

Philip Glenister

#15. At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.

Philip Glenister

#16. I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.

Philip Glenister

#17. There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

Philip Glenister

#18. Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true - that aren't really how we feel - but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about.

Jay Asher

#19. Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

Philip Glenister

#20. As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Philip Glenister