Tom Conti Quotes

#1. She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.

Comte De Lautreamont

#2. I'm going to fight for you. I'll bring down the Counts, and Chloe, and every Sector in the universe that gets in my way without think twice. I'm not interested in what the future has planned. I want to share everything with you, Skyla. I'm in love with you.

Addison Moore

#3. I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Tom Conti

#4. Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

Tom Conti

#5. If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

Tom Conti

#6. Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

Tom Conti

#7. There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

Tom Conti

#8. Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

Jan Hellriegel

#9. Danny couldn't remember how many times he had driven down this particular stretch of highway.

Mike Mehalek

#10. When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Tom Conti

#11. He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts.

Margaret George

#12. The end goal is to become FIFA Women's Player of the Year.

Carli Lloyd

#13. I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

Tom Conti

#14. I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Tom Conti

#15. It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

Tom Conti

#16. I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

Ted Ligety

#17. My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

Tom Conti

#18. How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

Aubrey Beardsley

#19. Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#20. Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.

Atsushi

#21. I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

Tom Conti

#22. Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Tom Conti

#23. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar Nelson Bradley

#24. If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Tom Conti