Hugh Quotes

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Life and values do run in cycles.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.

Bill Blankschaen is an emerging new voice in Christian life.

I will say one thing has changed dramatically which is this Supreme Court vacancy, and it will reshape the race on my side, because I'd rather lose an election than lose the Supreme Court.

I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.

Folks trying to plan their personal fiscal '15 are at a loss. They can't do a budget because they don't know what their health insurance costs will be.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.

The acoustics seem to get louder

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.