W E 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

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

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

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

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

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

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've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings. — 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 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 letter is the most imperishable thing on earth. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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