Eddie Redmayne Quotes

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• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking,…
• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of…
• On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing…
• I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs…
• Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.
• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable,…
• Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
• They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
• Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece…
• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that…
• Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to…
• A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have…
• And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years.…
• As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine…
• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described…
• Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing…
• I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King'…
• I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually…
• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green…
• I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in…

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