Stephen Rea Quotes

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• Acting is way of making yourself exist.
• Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
• At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
• At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed…
• I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
• I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
• I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
• I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that…
• I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North…
• I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
• I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
• I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that…
• My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.
• The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?
• People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
• People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what…
• That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants…
• The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
• I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been…
• You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

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