Quite Quotes

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I've talked a lot with Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Being on Team PokerStars with them has helped me out quite a bit. I've traveled around Europe playing with them. I've also talked with Robert Williamson here and there and Jim Worth. So I've had some good people to talk to and bounce ideas off of.

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.