Eddie Marsan Quotes
Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.
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Of course you want more revenue, but what good is it if it isn't predictable?
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
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I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
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You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
