Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Allen - Page 2

I don't suffer from what I believe a lot of actors suffer from, in that they have to do certain things to be an actor, like endlessly study the script and endlessly think about the character. I wouldn't advise that to anybody.

Unlike virtually everyone else, I know how to work a room. That comes in pretty handy. If you're not getting any laughs, then at least you can make people watch you.

I was always a late developer - in every field.

I'm very old fashioned. I'm from an era where your phone is in the house so if you are pottering in the garden then you won't hear it ring.

All actors will tell you that baddies are where the money is because they stick in people's minds.

I'm very good at pretending to be subservient; I'm really good at it.

I can't have wet wool next to my skin because it really affects it.

I don't think I've ever hurt anybody. I think I'll stand up on the day of judgment and go, 'Yeah? So what?'

I have a focused career plan, which is not to have a focused career plan.

I'm delighted that the BBC has given me the chance to delve into the murky world of 'The Body Farm.'

I would be a fool to say I enjoyed being in borstal, but when I was there I had a great time.

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

A performer, that's what I am, only I can perform in different areas.

If you look at the people in the Occupy and tax-evading movements, they come from all walks of life and have embraced that attitude of opposition from the 1970s.

I'm actually a rather dull man.

I only did the comedy thing because I just thought I could do it better than anyone else at the time. And I was right.

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.