Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
David Nicholls
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Money
Worked
Done
Early
Made
Actor
Good
Bits
Men
Looking
Time
Actors
Embarrassment
Success
Lots
Felt
Suddenly
More quotes by David Nicholls
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
David Nicholls
Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
David Nicholls
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
David Nicholls
Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.
David Nicholls
But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
David Nicholls
Work hard at . . . something.
David Nicholls
He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.
David Nicholls
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
David Nicholls
So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
David Nicholls
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
David Nicholls
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
David Nicholls
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
David Nicholls
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
David Nicholls
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
David Nicholls
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
David Nicholls
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
David Nicholls
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.
David Nicholls
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
David Nicholls
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
David Nicholls
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
David Nicholls
