I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre. — Steven Berkoff Actor Copy Share Image
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. — Steven Berkoff Administrator 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 do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers. — Steven Berkoff Food Copy Share Image
I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters. — Steven Berkoff Film 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
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
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being. — Steven Berkoff Being Copy Share Image
I may be 80, but I intend to keep acting until the day I die. Instead of slowing down, I've discovered my… — Steven Berkoff Acting 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
When I have criticism that I feel is unfair, the rejection does disturb me, but it also strengthens me. I used to… — Steven Berkoff Criticism 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
With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude… — Steven Berkoff Attitude 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
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 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
We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality. — Steven Berkoff Actuality 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 Copy Share Image
I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to. — Steven Berkoff Actor Copy Share Image
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight. — Steven Berkoff 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
I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language. — Steven Berkoff Cinema 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
When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language. — Steven Berkoff Acting 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 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
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and… — Steven Berkoff 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 Copy Share Image
