Brydon Quotes & Sayings

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it ... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind. — Rob Brydon

I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices. — Rob Brydon

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life. — Rob Brydon

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that. — Rob Brydon

Alleged commitment to democracy and human rights is mere rhetoric, directly contrary to actual policy. — Noam Chomsky

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance? — William Shakespeare

Facing different options, you must always choose the one that makes you most uncomfortable, the one that creates a tingling feeling of excitement inside your body. — John Duover

We may not be of the same blood, but we are brothers. Every Warrior here is my brethren. Doona carry your burdens alone. They will eventually bury you. — Donna Grant

Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man. — Rob Brydon

I'm seeking out a God who is the insatiable author of countless journeys, but who can still be intimately engaged with every minuscule facet of my journey. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder.
"Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply.
"Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade. — Rob Brydon

Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us in the same way when we sing it. — David Levithan

I do seem to look like a lot of people. — Rob Brydon

Hugh Laurie once described how he eventually came to realise that there is not a finite amount of success in the world, and that someone else gaining great success did not necessarily mean that there was now less to go around for everyone else. It's a good thing to remember. — Rob Brydon

I choose to reinterpret my fears with a more loving perspective. #MiraclesNow — Gabrielle Bernstein

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future. — John Kurtz

The mind is your guard, the heart is your maid and the soul is your territory. Nobody else but you should have the control of these. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible. — Maria Sharapova

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away. — Rob Brydon

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides. — Rob Brydon

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days. — Rob Brydon

It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was itself under a spell
so unnaturally, up and down the whole prospect of known and rather ugly objects, the blankness and the silence lasted. Had they ever, he asked himself, the hard-faced houses, which had begun to look livid in the dim dawn, had they ever spoken so little to any need of his spirit? Great builded voids, great crowded stillnesses put on, often, in the heart of cities, for the small hours, a sort of sinister mask, and it was of this large collective negation that Brydon presently became conscious
all the more that the break of day was, almost incredibly, now at hand, proving to him what night he had made of it. — Henry James

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive. — Rob Brydon

Life is achievement ... Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it. — Ayn Rand

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. — Ken Follett

Every one asks me what I 'think' of everything," said Spencer Brydon; "and I make answer as I can - begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn't matter to any of them really," he went on, "for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my 'thoughts' would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself. — Henry James

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life. — Rob Brydon

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come. — Rob Brydon

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness. — Rob Brydon

I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight. — Rob Brydon

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life. — Rob Brydon

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot. — Rob Brydon

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me. — Rob Brydon

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids. — Rob Brydon

Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio. — Rob Brydon

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake. — Drew Goddard

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. — Marian Wright Edelman