"When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Pete Postlethwaite

#Who I Am Quotes #Names Quotes #Light Quotes

“The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.”
“I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.”
“I love listening to classical music.”

Source : "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2010.
“I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.”

Source : "Brewer's Famous Quotations" by Nigel Rees, London: Cassell, (p. x), 1994.
“So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.”
“There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.”
“Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.”
“A husband may forget where he went on his honeymoon, but he never forgets why.”

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