Tom Jenkinson Quotes

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

Never be impressed with charisma. Look for character.

She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now." "How is doing your hair--and maybe putting on some lip gloss--being tricky?" "It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

Garry Shandling in particular - really had the concept. He really knew it, and it was done so lovingly. He would go beyond the joke, and sort of go into the character. His "funny" was very different, and I really appreciated it.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.