Quotes About Relevance

I don't want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around... don't want to be a piece of furniture in films.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

Harry Enfield and 'Chums' is very family-orientated, but 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme' isn't for mums and dads.

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

No one wants to follow someone fake or boring. Being accessible on social media, being honest, and having fun with it is key.

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

I don't want to do a cameo just for the heck of it.

For us the acceptance of audience is important, we won't keep making sequel after sequel just for the heck of it.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

Henry Cejudo actually saved the flyweights. Like, an entire division. I feel like this should be a bigger deal.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

I think I have too little to hide to be interesting.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.

The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction.

And yet to the people of only two generations ago, this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history.