Tom Bateman Quotes

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

You know I'm always in trouble.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.

Two kids riding their bikes to an empty lot? It never ends well.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.

Had Custer carried out the orders he got from General Terry the commands would have formed a junction exactly at the village, and have captured the whole outfit of teepees, etc., but Custer disobeyed orders from the fact of not wanting any other command - or body to have a finger in the pie - and thereby lost his life.

When you get into trouble 5000 miles from home, you have to have been looking for it.

I used to throw stuff out of the window and trash hotel rooms - and superglue all the drawers shut and superglue the toilet seat down and superglue the phone to the nightstand - and all kinds of stuff. I had a chain saw for a while. I didn't really use it but once or twice.

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.

After I finished racing in the United States, I received a lot of criticism for being dangerous, a little bit stupid, insane, you name it.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.