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I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes.
- David Thewlis
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I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.
- David Thewlis
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#Doing
#Myself
#Versatility
I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.
- David Thewlis
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#Done
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#Myself
#Room
I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit.
- David Thewlis
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#Nice
#People
#Think
#Visit
I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.
- David Thewlis
#Acting
#Course
#Had
#Then
#Up
I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don't know what went wrong with that.
- David Thewlis
#Big Fan
#Big
#Chocolate
#Know
#Wrong
The thing about 'Harry Potter' is it's great fun because of the people - I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you're going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.
- David Thewlis
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#Fun
#Funny
#Great
#People
It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.
- David Thewlis
#American
#Daughter
#Odd
#Sounds
#Who
I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.
- David Thewlis
#Art
#Go
#I Am
#Modern Art
#Who
I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night.
- David Thewlis
#Doing
#Love
#Night
#Stage
#Television
I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.
- David Thewlis
#Anything
#Country
#Men
#Myself
#Opposite
I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.
- David Thewlis
#Here
#Know
#Listening
#Still
#Until
When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...'
- David Thewlis
#Fight
#Hear
#Pub
#She
#Up
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
- David Thewlis
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#Off
#Time
#Workaholic
I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.
- David Thewlis
#Achieve
#Failure
#Love
#Me
#People
#Perfect
For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys.
- David Thewlis
#Hill
#Once
#People
#Say
#Time
I think the most beautiful sound is a child laughing.
- David Thewlis
#Beautiful
#Child
#Most Beautiful
#Sound
Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.
- David Thewlis
#Dark Side
#Dark
#Darkness
#Envy
#Passion
Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.
- David Thewlis
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#Dad
#Days
#Same
#Week
I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
- David Thewlis
#Art
#Jealousy
#Me
#Talent
#World
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