Laughton Charles Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton — Lou Lumenick

Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut. — Charles Laughton

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. — Michael Nesmith

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty. — Isabelle Eberhardt

People like you and me, we have too many nerves and not enough skin. That's the issue. Too many nerves. Not enough skin. We feel things straight to our bones. We're radar dishes. We take in everything and we feel everything. We feel pain that doesn't even belong to us. We are the animal shelter of feelings. We rescue everything. — Suanne Laqueur

It's a sanctuary where the darkest desires of the people are shared in the light of a Georgia moon; with a picture perfect town as a backdrop. — Alex Morgan

Comfort comes as a guest, lingers to become a host and stays to enslave us. — Lee Bickmore

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction. — Arthur Conan Doyle

They can't censor the gleam in my eye. — Charles Laughton

I have a face like the behind of an elephant. — Charles Laughton

What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors. — Jack Davenport

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing. — Tony Oliva

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it ... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there. — Charles Laughton

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. — Andreas Gursky

But I can tell by watching you That there's no chance of pushing through The odds are so against us You know most young love, it ends like this. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, I WOULD BE SAD — Colleen Hoover

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me. — Maureen O'Hara

Nothing is quite clear from the drug-fueled night when a blaze set in her apartment killed the little boy upstairs. But when the media brands Jess a child-killer, she starts to believe it herself. — M.R. Carey

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio. — Brian Cox

You need to put aside your own selfish motives and consider other people for a change. — Joe Schreiber

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os. — Oscar Robertson