Louis Theroux Quotes

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.

I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

I don't read my reviews. Unless I'm unfortunate enough to catch something by accident, which happens, and it's always a bad review. Always, it's amazing. I will be sitting in a café, and I will open a random paper right to the page of the review.... And then you're sucked in and go home and never want to go out again.

If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.