David Thewlis

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.”

“I quite like being on my own. I'm a bit of a loner.”

“I'm not a Method actor. I'm a kind of 'what you see is what you get' actor.”

“I am probably more of a character actor than a leading man, and I'm quite happy with that.”

“It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to be stereotyped, where you can play a character who is not English.”

“I've been lucky to have made a number of films that I'm proud of. And I've made a lot of films that I'm not proud of.”

“I'm not on social media. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Instagram. I'm not on anything.”

“I spend a lot of time doing my best to not be a stereotype of an actor. I've been to the parties and drunk the champagne, and it's not for me.”

“I was not a 'Harry Potter' fan. I didn't see any of the films, and I didn't read any of the books. I'm not a fan of fantasy. I like sci-fi, but not fantasy.”

“The first Mike Leigh film I saw was 'Nuts in May.' I was a teenager and it was on television and I was like, 'Wow, that is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.'”

“I always wanted to be a painter. I was a painter, but I was a terrible painter.”