Christopher Eccleston Quotes

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• The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once…
• I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
• I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
• Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
• I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good…
• I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year,…
• It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
• I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.
• Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and…
• No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all…
• What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each…
• When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.
• My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it…
• I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the…
• Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern…
• I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political…
• I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is…
• I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

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