All Stephen Rea Quotes
- Acting is way of making yourself exist. Acting
- Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie. Angel
- At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I? Acting
- 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… Break
- I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. Afraid
- I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. Behave
- I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. Been
- 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… Acting
- 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… Administered
- I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. Always Ambiguous
- I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting. 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… Ago
- My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do. Act
- 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? Affair
- People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. Always Comes
- 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… Career
- 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… Acting
- The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. Actor
- 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… Bad
- You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares. Inspirational
- The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about… Ambiguity