When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language. — Steven Berkoff Acting Copy Share Image
Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie. — Steven Berkoff Bad Copy Share Image
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. — Steven Berkoff Administrator Copy Share Image
I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre. — Steven Berkoff Actor Copy Share Image
Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay. — Steven Berkoff Devil Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered with affection, with regard, and with just a smallest amount of admiration - that here's a man… — Steven Berkoff Admiration Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque,… — Steven Berkoff Europe Copy Share Image
Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if… — Steven Berkoff Amazing Copy Share Image
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working… — Steven Berkoff Generals Copy Share Image
I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and… — Steven Berkoff Friend Copy Share Image
Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play… — Steven Berkoff Casting Copy Share Image
My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the… — Steven Berkoff Age Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most… — Steven Berkoff Bad Copy Share Image
You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't… — Steven Berkoff Cinema Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or… — Steven Berkoff Actor Copy Share Image
Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human,… — Steven Berkoff American Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point… — Steven Berkoff Every night Copy Share Image
British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the… — Steven Berkoff Brain Copy Share Image
After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never… — Steven Berkoff Brain Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original… — Steven Berkoff Anti semitism Copy Share Image
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being. — Steven Berkoff Fashion Copy Share Image
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I… — Steven Berkoff Class Copy Share Image
I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of… — Steven Berkoff Feel Copy Share Image
A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would… — Steven Berkoff Elegant Copy Share Image
I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language. — Steven Berkoff Cinema Copy Share Image
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is. — Steven Berkoff Blunt Copy Share Image
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and… — Steven Berkoff Believe Copy Share Image
My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front. — Steven Berkoff First Copy Share Image
I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to. — Steven Berkoff Audacity Copy Share Image
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight. — Steven Berkoff Critics Copy Share Image
The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life. — Steven Berkoff Humanity Copy Share Image
When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst. — Steven Berkoff People Copy Share Image
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a… — Steven Berkoff Analysis Copy Share Image
