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David Thewlis
David Thewlis
English Actor
Born: Mar 20, 1963
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Related authors: Bill Nighy Charlie Chaplin John Cleese Michael Caine Robert Pattinson Tom Hardy Tom Hiddleston Tom Holland
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
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That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing. David Thewlis
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The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another. David Thewlis
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You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant. David Thewlis
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People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along. David Thewlis
You People Sometimes Say Part Along Came Choose Chose Why
I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite. David Thewlis
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I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me. David Thewlis
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It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family. David Thewlis
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It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night. David Thewlis
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I love being a dad. David Thewlis
Love Being Dad
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
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'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people, and I started doing a few American films of various levels of quality. David Thewlis
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I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology. David Thewlis
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I don't think they should trust anything that happens in 'Fargo' at all, and I'm sure 'Fargo' fans know not to make the mistake of trusting too much. David Thewlis
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I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more. David Thewlis
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The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency. David Thewlis
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I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey. David Thewlis
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I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it. David Thewlis
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I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family. David Thewlis
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As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do. David Thewlis
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'Harry Potter' is very nice because it's very easy to make children happy. All you have to do is have your photograph taken with them. David Thewlis
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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
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What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm not turning into a werewolf. It's a silly thing to do, isn't it? It's what you do in the playground when you're kids - but actors just never stop doing it. David Thewlis
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I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. David Thewlis
Kind Drifted Through Acting Series Coincidences
And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed. David Thewlis
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Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. David Thewlis
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