Albert Finney Quotes

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• I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.
• I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.
• I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that…
• I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or…
• I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were…
• I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same…
• Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is…
• When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it…
• To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own…
• My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were…
• Maybe don't make it so.
• We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make…
• There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship…
• My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
• That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have…
• There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself…
• I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I…
• She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special.
• We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up…
• Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has…

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