David Thewlis Quotes

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I really like reading about how families work together.

I have three brothers and a sister. One older and three younger. My oldest brother Danny plays Hyde on 'That '70s Show,' and my younger brother Jordan and my sister Allanah act as well, so we're a bit of an acting family.

I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

When you've got a teenager and a pre-teen, especially a son and a daughter, and they're going at each other at the table, all you really want is just five minutes of quiet, but sometimes I have a moment during the chaos when I think, 'Yes, this is good.'

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

I don't have to rope in Armaan for every song just because he is my brother. There have been times when I have replaced him with another singer. We don't have a war over it at home.

There's plenty of times in my life I've coached against my brother, coached against people I've coached with.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

I think that your relationship is always changing with your siblings.

I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what sparked my interest in acting.

Families are complex organisms.

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there's so much stress that often you don't even pay attention to the luxuries.

Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

I wouldn't do a lot of the things most actresses do, and that includes my sister.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

You always fight with your brothers.