Toby Stephens Quotes

#1. My wife's married. I'm not.

Charles Barkley

#2. I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.

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#3. That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

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#4. If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

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#5. My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.

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#6. I blub all the time, in the most weird situations - not in the ones that should make me cry. Music makes me very emotional.

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#7. I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

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#8. And feelings were always smarter things than thoughts

Andrea Gibson

#9. Folks look around, what do you see and what do you have in your hand or in your house? Don't you ever underestimate what is in your hand or in your house, it doesn't matter how little it is.

Euginia Herlihy

#10. Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

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#11. Everything was great until it sucked.

Patrick Wensink

#12. I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.

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#13. Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Michael Chabon

#14. Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

Steven L. Peck

#15. THE BASIC CON

Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.

Lew Welch

#16. I love travelling with my laptop because I get a bit nervous if I can't access my e-mails.

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#17. Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

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#18. In sleep I heard the northern gleams;
The stars they were among my dreams;
In sleep did I behold the skies

William Wordsworth

#19. Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

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#20. A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.

David Ignatius

#21. I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

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#22. Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

Felicia Day

#23. It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.

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#24. Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.

James Hillman

#25. Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

Sarah Sutton

#26. The Humpback Trail on New Zealand's South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and is fairly arduous. You go through prehistoric forest and up to the top of Humpback Mountain, where there are amazing views down to the Tasman Sea.

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#27. I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

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#28. I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkelling.

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#29. Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor - and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free.

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