Sangster Quotes & Sayings

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it. — Thomas Sangster

When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family. — Thomas Sangster

Music's another big love of mine. — Thomas Sangster

I like the outdoors. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for 'our own' the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best. — Margaret E. Sangster

I usually get those parts which are slightly set away, a bit weird, so I am good at that! — Thomas Sangster

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life. — Jimmy Sangster

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy. — W. Sangster

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. — Charles Sangster

I once worked with Emma Thompson's mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with. — Thomas Sangster

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction ... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine. — Liam Neeson

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing. — Jimmy Sangster

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. — Thomas Sangster

There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are. — Jimmy Sangster

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me! — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it. — W. Sangster

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that. — Thomas Sangster

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes. — Jimmy Sangster

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers. — Jimmy Sangster

I would like to work with Jean Reno, and I think it would be amazing to work with Jim Carrey. I would quite like to work with Robert De Niro and probably Christopher Walken. — Thomas Sangster

I've always been very conscious of who I am. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny. — Thomas Sangster

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

It
isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which
gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

When I'm working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town. — Thomas Sangster

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.' — Thomas Sangster

The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible ... 19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning. — W. Sangster

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer. — Thomas Sangster

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things ... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. — Jimmy Sangster

I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

My girlfriend has read all the 'Game of Thrones' books - twice. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I never wanted to be the annoying kid on set. — Thomas Sangster

Every child's birthright is a happy home. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Knuckling a blast of salt spray out of his eyes, Jack pointed — Rob Sangster

I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Do you want it good or Tuesday? — Jimmy Sangster

To keep one's voice sweet, one's face bright, one's will steady, one's patience unperturbed, in the arena of the home, in the light of one's own family, is no light task — Margaret E. Sangster

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn! — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered. — W. Sangster

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster