Quotes by David Thewlis

• I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.
• Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.
• Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.
• The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.
• It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.
• I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.
• I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.
• I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.
• I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.
• Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.