I. D. Douglas Quotes

I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.

When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.

I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

If you're going to dream, why dream small?

You know, my basic theory about kids: they are monsters in children ziploc suits, which they discard when they go to school each day.

Louis Maistros has an original and dark vision, full of power.

The action is in the interaction.

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.

Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.