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Portrait of Jeremy Northam

Jeremy Northam

(1961) Singer United Kingdom

27 quotes in 221 categories

Jeremy Northam is a singer from the United Kingdom.

Quick Facts About Jeremy Northam

Born: December 1, 1961
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Singer

About Jeremy Northam

Jeremy Philip Northam is an English actor. His film credits include The Net (1995), Emma (1996), An Ideal Husband (1999), Amistad (1997), The Winslow Boy (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Enigma (2001). In television, he also played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors (2007–2008) and appeared as Anthony Eden in the Netflix series The Crown (2016–2017).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Laurence Olivier Awards Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award

Quotes by Jeremy Northam

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had…

Desire

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People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want…

Children

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As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

Actors

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Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I…

Bizarre

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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the…

Actors

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I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

Actors

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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow,…

Former

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He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind…

Brutal

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I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is…

Born

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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us…

Books

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My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that…

Air

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I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't…

Giving

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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the…

About

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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of…

Fiction

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I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all…

Choose

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Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it.

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I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a…

Cards

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I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to…

Able

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I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly,…

Approach

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I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time…

Children

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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

Sponges

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It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your…

Jobs

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There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the…

Been

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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the…

Aesthetic

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The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial…

Ancient

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