quotes about Gladstone

“I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.”

“I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1990 Interview With Actor Christopher Lee". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 12, 2015.

“My old coach used to say two points was two points...”

“Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't.”

“You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.”

“When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.”

“The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.197, University of Chicago Press

“This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.”

“When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!”

“In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion.”