"Real-life people are often the hardest to play,……" — Derek Jacobi
"Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters."
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37 Quotes by Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi has 37 quotes on this site.
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We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over…
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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting…
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Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions…
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It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if…
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Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately,…
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Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has…
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I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any…
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I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We…
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I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and…
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Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from…
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I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the…
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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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More Actually Lived Quotes
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to…
— William J. Murray
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Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror…
— Thomas Paine
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Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
— Edwin S. Shneidman
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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity…
— David M. Raup
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Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the…
— Ray Davies
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually…
— Brian Jacques
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and…
— Daniel Alarcon
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When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being…
— Orson Scott Card
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that…
— Douglas Coupland
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A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what…
— Tom Robbins
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My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century.…
— Roger Bannister
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