"I am an actor and I live in……" — Derek Jacobi

"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."

— Derek Jacobi

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37 Quotes by Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over…
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to…
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting…
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions…
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if…
Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately,…
Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has…
I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any…
I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We…
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and…
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from…
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought,…

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