Pete Postlethwaite Quotes

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• It’s like coming back to the womb. I’m coming back to my mum and it’s wonderful to see her. It’s the best space in the…
• There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.
• I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
• Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.
• I couldnt imagine living my life with another name.
• At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal…
• Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.
• I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't…
• I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people…
• I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from…
• When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it,…

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