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Quotes by British Authors
"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."
"I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids."
"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."
"Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close."
"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
"All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely."
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
"Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen."
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
"God invented mankind because he loved silly stories."
"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."
"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
"A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is."
"Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!"
"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."
"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."
"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."
"Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example, it leads all previous idea of the Messiah in ruins."
"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
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