60 Individual Selected Quotes From David Hewlett | Status Free Download
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People talk about drones like they're a bad thing, but they forget there are people behind them. It's a lot easier to blame the technology than to accept that people are a cancer on this planet.
— David Hewlett
I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'
— David Hewlett
No, I am not allergic to lemon, though fresh pineapple can pose problems.
— David Hewlett
The actor's dream is to come in knowing that you're only supposed to do one episode and then come back because people liked it.
— David Hewlett
There's very few comedy sci-fis that have worked for me other than the classics, like 'Red Dwarf' and, of course, 'Hitchhiker's Guide.'
— David Hewlett
I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.
— David Hewlett
Love scenes in general are the most technical things to shoot.
— David Hewlett
I really love playing McKay. It's one of those roles where every day something is different.
— David Hewlett
I don't want to know what happens because I enjoy picking up a script and going, 'I do what?!'
— David Hewlett
Bad guys are always fun. It's one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.
— David Hewlett
I drool like nobody.
— David Hewlett
All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.
— David Hewlett
I wanted to do '2001' from Hal's perspective. What it finally ended up being was 'Final Destination' in space.
— David Hewlett
The thing I love about YouTube is it's almost like having an instant audience for improv.
— David Hewlett
I always thought there were two kinds of males in the world: the ones who look good naked and the ones who look funny naked.
— David Hewlett
As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.
— David Hewlett
You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.
— David Hewlett
It's always a stunt acting opposite Robert Picardo, because you never know what he's going to do.
— David Hewlett
Yes, I am Canadian, having sailed here from England on a Russian boat called the Alexander Pushkin when I was the ripe old age of 4.
— David Hewlett
'Debug' is '2001' from Hal's perspective.
— David Hewlett
When a kid says 'I'm in astrophysics at school because of your character' that's amazing to me.
— David Hewlett
I actually am a computer nerd.
— David Hewlett
I've always spoken very quickly, and when I get nervous, I talk even faster.
— David Hewlett
Art, location, money - I say as long as you've got one of them, you're fine.
— David Hewlett
There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.
— David Hewlett
As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.
— David Hewlett
I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.
— David Hewlett
When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.
— David Hewlett
The nature of filmmaking is that there are so many people involved in it, so many fingers in the pie, that part of the talent of a director is to try and get your personality through in the movie.
— David Hewlett
I adored my years playing Rodney McKay and I would jump at any chance to reprise the role!
— David Hewlett
If I was Leo DiCaprio or someone similarly gifted and successful I wouldn't be writing. I'd be too busy acting in all the best scripts in town to try and write them!
— David Hewlett
The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.
— David Hewlett
'Pin' was a creepy little movie that I starred in back when I was cool and thin and had so much hair I didn't know what color to dye it.
— David Hewlett
My father took me and my about-to-be-traumatized friends to Stanley Kubrick's '2001' for my 10th birthday party.
— David Hewlett
I want more sci-fi movies that aren't $200 million movies that I have to wait for and generally be disappointed with.
— David Hewlett
It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction.
— David Hewlett
'Cube' was the first big science fiction film I was a part of. It was a fantastic directorial debut by one of my oldest friends Vincenzo Natali and it remains one of my most painful and uncomfortable roles. It's also one of my favorites.
— David Hewlett
If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.
— David Hewlett
I think what Stargate has going for it is a sense of humor about their science fiction.
— David Hewlett
What I love about the 'State of Syn' concept is that, while it's exploring science fiction, it's also trying to explore the future of film and television and the Internet, just in the nature of how they put it together and promote it and add apps and all that kind of stuff.
— David Hewlett
My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.
— David Hewlett
Bill Nye, so that guy truly knows everything, and I tested him. I'd come in every day with some new question for him that I'd assuming he'd have no idea basically how to answer it - basically he knows everything.
— David Hewlett
I find that love scenes are the most unsexy things to shoot.
— David Hewlett
I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.
— David Hewlett
I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.
— David Hewlett
The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.
— David Hewlett
I wanted to try directing.
— David Hewlett
I guess again I find myself playing the somewhat grumpy scientist. Strange how that happens.
— David Hewlett
No, I gained weight while playing the role of Rodney Mckay on Stargate Atlantis... breakfast burritos and a near endless supply of donuts.
— David Hewlett
I used to spill things on my t-shirts, leaving oily dark spots down the front that I would try to hide with loose-fitting dress shirts. Nowadays all I have to do is tell everyone my son did it. I skirt the 'slob' moniker and instead look like a dedicated father who doesn't even have time to change.
— David Hewlett
So I think the popularity of the Internet at the same time as the show made a big part of this sort of groundswell of support for 'Stargate.'
— David Hewlett
I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'
— David Hewlett
You had to do some club after school and it was either the sports or the intellectuals. And right smack in the middle was the acting thing for all the outcasts, which I fell into pretty easily.
— David Hewlett
My mother says my first television experience was hiding behind the sofa watching John Pertwee's 'Doctor Who.' I loved that show.
— David Hewlett
In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by using humor. It's amazing how you can blend in with that.
— David Hewlett
Sequels are scary. And making a sequel to something as good as 'Scanners' is even scarier.
— David Hewlett
The comedy and character interaction on 'Atlantis' is what makes it so different from most science fiction shows.
— David Hewlett
I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'
— David Hewlett
As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.
— David Hewlett
I've always loved cheesy stuff.
— David Hewlett
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