That’s one of the main things I’ve learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I’ve been dishonest. There’s nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It’s excruciatingly embarrassing. David Thewlis Read Quote
As soon as I have the script in my hand, I’ll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it’s just such a lovely thing to do. David Thewlis Read Quote
I wanted to do ‘Fargo’ rather than do a TV production. I’ve been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that’s about that I don’t want to be away from home for that long because it’s a long time to be away your home country and my family. David Thewlis Read Quote
I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it. David Thewlis Read Quote
I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it’s very much there as a theme of all the seasons of ‘Fargo’ as well: the predator and the prey. David Thewlis Read Quote
I was interested in the idea of celebrity… some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes. David Thewlis Read Quote
You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant. David Thewlis Read Quote
People sometimes say, ‘Why do you choose a part?’ and sometimes it’s not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along. David Thewlis Read Quote
I did ‘Basic Instinct 2’ because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date. David Thewlis Read Quote
