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Janet Suzman

(1939) Film Director South Africa

19 quotes in 150 categories

Janet Suzman is a film director from South Africa, best known for Acting with Shakespeare.

Quick Facts About Janet Suzman

Born: February 9, 1939
Nationality: South Africa
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Acting with Shakespeare
Known for: Consecration
Spouse: Trevor Nunn

About Janet Suzman

Dame Janet Suzman is a South African-born British actress who had a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on television. In her first film, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), her performance as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna earned her several honours, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

honorary master's degree Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire honorary doctorate of the University of Cape Town Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

Quotes by Janet Suzman

I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't…

Bears

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I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand…

Blood

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This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more…

Always

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But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in…

Black

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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society…

Affluent

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It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa…

Differences

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I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't…

Acting

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My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Agnostic

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I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that…

Attention

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Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more,…

Air

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And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

Emphasis

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I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour.…

Behaviour

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One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are…

Actors

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Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the…

Annuals

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So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain…

Certain

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Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis…

Bags

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You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Bigs

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But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see…

Growth

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OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears…

Forever

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