Pete Postlethwaite Quotes

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

I refuse to be typecast, and I’ll have a go at anything so long as it’s different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don’t like people who just follow one line and that’s it – that’s why I could never be in a sitcom, I don’t think. They’re not intriguing enough for me.

I couldn’t imagine living my life with another name.

It’s like coming back to the womb. I’m coming back to my mum and it’s wonderful to see her. It’s the best space in the world. If it wasn’t for this place I don’t know what I’d have done with my life.

I’m not a practicing Catholic now. I didn’t like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn’t say I’m not religious.

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.

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there’s bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.