Quite Quotes · Page 63

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being…

— Alison Jackson

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get…

— Jack Dee

I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because…

— Teddy Thompson

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps.…

— Vikram Seth

We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within…

— Peter Barris

While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire…

— Vint Cerf

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

— Gwendoline Christie

I'm quite good at finishing, I suppose.

— Dwight Gayle

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time…

— James Blake

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not…

— Bertie Carvel

Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular…

— John Glover

I'm quite happy with the body of work that I've done, and I've done some really good work over the years that…

— Ray Winstone

Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's…

— Robert Lacey

My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I…

— Cicely Tyson

We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.

— Judy Gold

Generally, I'm quite chilled about my looks, but I'm gutted if my skin's bad.

— Stacey Dooley

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

— Greg Sestero

I like a girl who doesn't take life too seriously and is quite easy-going.

— Louis Tomlinson

I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was…

— King Krule

Activision is structured with independent studios and they give their independent studios quite a bit of autonomy.

— Michael Morhaime

The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.

— Tino Sehgal

I'm quite curvy and I just try and exercise whenever I can. I don't do anything hardcore as I'm just not that…

— Leona Lewis

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful…

— Garry Hynes

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and…

— Harry Johnston

I know that Annie Lennox has saved my life quite a few times, and I never forget that.

— David A. Stewart