Eddie Marsan

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is…

— Eddie Marsan

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but…

— Eddie Marsan

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by…

— Eddie Marsan

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

— Eddie Marsan

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's…

— Eddie Marsan

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

— Eddie Marsan

As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people…

— Eddie Marsan

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said: "You know, it's funny, it's when you've got…

— Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they…

— Eddie Marsan

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I…

— Eddie Marsan

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when…

— Eddie Marsan

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to…

— Eddie Marsan

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was…

— Eddie Marsan

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but…

— Eddie Marsan

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when…

— Eddie Marsan

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

— Eddie Marsan

I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they…

— Eddie Marsan

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were…

— Eddie Marsan

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated…

— Eddie Marsan

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's…

— Eddie Marsan

I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as…

— Eddie Marsan

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a…

— Eddie Marsan

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in…

— Eddie Marsan

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain,…

— Eddie Marsan

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who…

— Eddie Marsan