David Thewlis

You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go.

— David Thewlis

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

— David Thewlis

The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency.

— David Thewlis

In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.'

— David Thewlis

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more,…

— David Thewlis

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based…

— David Thewlis

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

— David Thewlis

I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest…

— David Thewlis

I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.

— David Thewlis

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have…

— David Thewlis

I can remember, after I started doing films, my mum began going to more arthouse films. She went to see 'Edward Scissorhands'…

— David Thewlis

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and…

— David Thewlis

It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in…

— David Thewlis

I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for…

— David Thewlis

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. --…

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I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit.

— David Thewlis

When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.

— David Thewlis

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be…

— David Thewlis

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort…

— David Thewlis

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

— David Thewlis

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my…

— David Thewlis

'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people,…

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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…

— David Thewlis

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

— David Thewlis

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…

— David Thewlis