Antony Sher Quotes

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• As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and…
• As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what…
• The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort…
• I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply…
• I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
• Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself…
• Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can…
• I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have…
• Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or…
• My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
• What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
• A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.
• Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project…
• I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.
• I love playing outsiders, I always do.
• I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough…
• Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't…
• If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'
• I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being…
• It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

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