Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

- Pete Postlethwaite

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

- Pete Postlethwaite

I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trai…

- Pete Postlethwaite

When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would …

- Pete Postlethwaite

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

- Pete Postlethwaite

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

- Pete Postlethwaite

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

- Pete Postlethwaite

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tel…

- Pete Postlethwaite

I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

- Pete Postlethwaite