David Thewlis Quotes

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

I'm not afraid of getting into a subject I don't know much about.

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

Where facts are few, experts are many.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

The experts, for all their superior knowledge, rarely do better than chance in predicting future events.

I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

Listen, if anyone knows Aleister Black, it's me.

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I'm just telling you: I don't know what the heck I'm talking about - I'm just an old funky college coach - but Deshaun Watson is the best by a long shot.

Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

I know CIA like the back of my hand.