Accurate Quote by Derek Jacobi

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually…

— Jamie Dornan

Every period piece is made in the context of the moment, always equally trying to capture something about now through then. But as an…

— Fred Hechinger

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in…

— Sebastian Koch

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

— Sonu Sood

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

— Jack Nicholson

Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and…

— Liev Schreiber

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

— Kate Fleetwood

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I…

— Charlie Hunnam

As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to…

— Rebecca Miller

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

— George Clooney

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that…

— Marcia Gay Harden

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find…

— Tom Mison