Christopher Eccleston Quotes
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
-
The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
-
I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
-
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
-
I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
-
My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
-
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
-
I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
-
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
-
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
-
You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
-
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
-
The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
-
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
-
I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
-
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
-
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
-
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
-
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
-
It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.
-
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
-
As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.
-
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
-
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
