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Josh O'Connor

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[Wikipedia] Joshua Mathias O'Connor is an English actor. From 2016 to 2019, he had a major role portraying Larry Durrell in ITV's The Durrells. He had his breakthrough playing the lead role of a closeted sheep farmer in Francis Lee's romantic drama God's Own Country (2017), for which he won the BIFA Award for B

Quotes by Josh O'Connor

If Leonardo DiCaprio calls, I'll hang out with him, sure.

Hang

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Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.

Fame

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I have no memory of feeling strong and rugged at any point. I've been considering masculinity my whole life.

Life

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Being in 'The Crown' and being recognised in the street is weird for me.

Being

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I had one lesson with Devil's Horsemen, who do a lot of the horse-riding stuff for films. They train actors to look…

Cinema

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Well, we lived in Newbury first, until I was five. Then we went to Cheltenham, which is lovely, a really sweet town.…

Best

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I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

Actor

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Y'know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it's always kind of miserable. Love doesn't work and then, if it does work,…

Always

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This crew member has managed to get this picture of me to the Queen who'd said that she loved me in 'The…

Life

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I love theater and I really wanted to do more theater.

I love

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All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

Art

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Regardless of the size of the budget or the name of the director, if the story is really interesting, then I can…

Budget

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Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

Career

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Richard II is my dream part.

Dream

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The thing is, I was always a republican, but I have to say I've become completely obsessed with the Queen.

Always

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I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out…

British

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My dad's an English teacher and my mum's a midwife. Then my mum's side of the family are all crazy creative.

Crazy

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All of a sudden we were going on school trips, seeing these amazing plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett. My whole…

Amazing

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I think I'm generally quite good at being able to put things in the past and let them go, as it were.

Go

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My parents probably were delighted when I chose acting, because if there is one job in the world that is less financially…

Acting

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When I left school, all I wanted was to buy a van.

Buy

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I work in an industry in which we're all quite vulnerable, I think, to mental health.

Health

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You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

Acting

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The historical kings of England are all strong soldiers and leaders, but can you be a sensitive leader? It's the same in…

History

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Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were…

Acting

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