Top 55 Skins Quotes

After ‘Skins’ I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

I was into ‘Skins,’ ‘Shameless‘ – I was really into ‘Shameless’ for a bit.

I’ve worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I’ll think, ‘Have you stopped learning?’ They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

Olay does a great tinted moisturiser that I add a little turmeric to – making it more yellow depending on my skin tone and the season. That’s a great trick for all women who find that foundations are too ashy or too pink for their skins. And it’s anti-inflammatory. It’s my secret weapon.

The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

‘Skins’ was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.

There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I’ve always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

The concept of the characters in animal skins and us satirizing modern technology made it fun. But the voices we cast and the characterization of Fred Flintstone had a lot to do with it.

‘Skins’ was such a great platform for young actors. They had this whole thing about getting people who weren’t trained, this new generation, this new culture.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

‘Skins’ was a fun role and I enjoyed it.

I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.

I went on Skins’ when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.

Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it’s the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It’s a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity.

I didn’t tell anyone in school that I was going to be in ‘Skins.’ I was terrified of them putting me down.

Mars still remains the astrobiology community‘s number one choice for ‘nearest rock with life,’ but there are many researchers who argue that the moons of Jupiter are better bets. In particular, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are all thought to hide vast oceans of liquid water beneath their icy, outer skins.

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

On ‘Skins,’ we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn’t on set, I was doing my normal things.

The recognition thing started to happen in 2009 when ‘Skins’ season three had come out and we were on TV. It used to happen much more when we were in the height of our success, but I never really saw it as a chore or anything like that. It was just quite exciting – you had fans.

In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport… I would say most hunters are Christian men.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox‘s or bear‘s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like ‘Skins’ has.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it’s a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don’t use animal skins or fur of any kind.

‘Skins’ has been such a great thing for our generation – I don’t want it to become a parody of itself.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

Mourinho is known for getting under players‘ skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.

Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as Indians, to be deeply self-critical. The problem arises when loyalty to India gets mixed up with loyalty to the government of the day.

See, tomato skins are really good at keeping tomato juices inside the tomato, but they have one defect: Moisture can escape from the tops, where the tomatoes were attached to the vine.

In an online community, there’s this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that’s a good website that’s visited a lot, but there’s no real gameplay there.

What’s great about ‘Skins’ is that the characters are exactly like people around you.

‘Skins’ had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young writers. It was a safe environment to experiment; it tried new things, and it was an amazing time and amazing to be part of it.

‘Skins’ is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it’s all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it’s a good show because it’s come from a very real place, and there’s a lot of young people involved in the writing.

Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don’t care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician’s armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.

I would never claim to be an actor as I have never had any training and apart from being in a panto, before ‘Skins’ I had not acted.

‘Skins’ is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

My first real acting job was ‘Skins’ at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I’d have got that job at sixteen.

My high school experience was very different than the high school experience on ‘Skins.’

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

An Indian’s dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with ‘spirit‘, and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

I still don’t get stopped about anything else anywhere near as much as ‘Skins.’ The remarkable thing that I’ve noticed is how far that show has traveled: it’s aired all over the world.

My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

I love ‘Skins’. I was a huge fan of the British series. I love how everyone is freaking out about it.

I am up for anything, but my favorite show in the whole world is this English series, ‘Skins.’ It would be awesome to be able to go on that somehow.

Anybody who has a problem with ‘Skins’ obviously doesn’t understand teenage life.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, ‘OK, no more pretending.’ You get to just be who you are.

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from ‘Skins’ went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins – a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.