Stephen Mangan quote: "I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me."

I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types...
STEPHEN MANGAN

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your c...
STEPHEN MANGAN

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of ord...
STEPHEN MANGAN

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable ...
STEPHEN MANGAN

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressin...
STEPHEN MANGAN

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension ...
STEPHEN MANGAN

We recognize Yuma as being a firearms source for guns going to Mexico. Arizona is a source state for...
TOM MANGAN

Stanley forced a smile to his lips at the memory of the onesided romance; it was silly, after all, a...
AMELIA MANGAN

We anticipate additional arrests in relation to the theft as the investigation continues.
TOM MANGAN

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...
STEPHEN COVEY

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
STEPHEN COVEY

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
STEPHEN KING

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with your eyes for feelings.
STEPHEN COVEY

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KING

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
STEPHEN KING

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
STEPHEN COVEY

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
STEPHEN COVEY

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
STEPHEN KINZER

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
STEPHEN GARDINER

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
STEPHEN COLBERT

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
STEPHEN HAWKING

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin Amer...
STEPHEN KINZER

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ...
STEPHEN DOBYNS

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ...
STEPHEN DALDRY

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
STEPHEN HAWKING

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the...
STEPHEN BATCHELOR

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of...
STEPHEN PHILLIPS

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
STEPHEN REA

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
STEPHEN CURRY

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY

Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
STEPHEN COLLETTI

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
STEPHEN BREYER

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patr...
STEPHEN KINZER

secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING

Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
STEPHEN HOPKINS

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER

I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ...
STEPHEN KINZER

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
STEPHEN DORFF

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein...
STEPHEN KINZER

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat...
STEPHEN MARLEY

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume...
STEPHEN DALDRY

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
STEPHEN COLBERT

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
STEPHEN CURRY

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
STEPHEN SWID

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...
STEPHEN HAWKING

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE

(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A...
STEPHEN KINZER

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY

If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE

There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY

That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING

His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER

After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING

We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain,...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Enjoy it. Because it's happening.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

This moment will just be another story someday.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the re...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each othe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...
STEPHEN FRY

Books are a uniquely portable magic.
STEPHEN KING

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives...
STEPHEN HAWKING

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
STEPHEN KING

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that...
STEPHEN COLBERT

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change ...
STEPHEN KENDRICK

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we h...
STEPHEN KENDRICK

I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the m...
STEPHEN FRY

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or ju...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the...
STEPHEN COVEY

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
STEPHEN KING

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have be...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I...
STEPHEN FRY

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
STEPHEN KING

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
STEPHEN HUNT

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

The scariest moment is always just before you start.
STEPHEN KING

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because wo...
STEPHEN KING

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
STEPHEN KING

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING

He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband ...
STEPHEN HARRIGAN

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some telev...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.
STEPHEN BISHOP

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so h...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wo...
STEPHEN HAWKING

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, you...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING

I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

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I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

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