"If you play a part that's been done……" — Samuel West
"If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else."
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25 Quotes by Samuel West
Samuel West has 25 quotes on this site.
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[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond…
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Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always…
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We'll be back. I promise you that.
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At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've…
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime…
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It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be…
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It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an…
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Most actors are socialists, aren't they?
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Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.
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I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different…
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Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the…
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When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or…
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
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