David Thewlis Quotes

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next.

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

In my case, the business chose me.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

Fate is like a train. When it flies past, you can choose if you want to get on it or not, to say no or say yes.

It was coincidental that 'Housefull 2' and 'Bol Bachchan' came back-to-back. It's not that I have a special affinity for them and so I chose them; they just came my way.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.