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" Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder. "
Eddie Marsan
Green
Class
Forever
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" My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it. "
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Business
Job
Just
" I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun. "
Eddie Marsan
Think
Love
Great
" I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?' "
Eddie Marsan
Saying
Wife
Day
" I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work. "
Eddie Marsan
Love
Good-Looking
Work
" When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything. "
Eddie Marsan
People
Doing
First
" As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself. "
Eddie Marsan
School
People
Need
" It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence. "
Eddie Marsan
Play
Way
Violence
" You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society. "
Eddie Marsan
People
Come
You
" I wouldn't have been interested in making a show just about Hollywood, 'cause I find Hollywood boring. I find people and families very interesting. "
Eddie Marsan
People
Boring
Find
" Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't. "
Eddie Marsan
Education
Give
Sense
" I have my career and my family, and that's it. "
Eddie Marsan
Career
Family
" My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well. "
Eddie Marsan
Up
Done
Friends
" The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies. "
Eddie Marsan
The Hardest Thing
Hardest
Miserable
" Art is the job of the privileged. "
Eddie Marsan
Privileged
Art
Job
" I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't. "
Eddie Marsan
Bring
Terrible
Who
" The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A. "
Eddie Marsan
You
Worst
Next
" I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job. "
Eddie Marsan
Try
Know
Too Much
" When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando. "
Eddie Marsan
Character
Watching
Young
" I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.' "
Eddie Marsan
Kind
People
Inspiration
" I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day. "
Eddie Marsan
Got
Toilet
Four
" My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star. "
Eddie Marsan
You
Star
Know
" I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them. "
Eddie Marsan
Age
Tough
Violence
" If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do. "
Eddie Marsan
Need
Job
You
" I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician. "
Eddie Marsan
School
Artist
Done
" I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me. "
Eddie Marsan
Think
Me
People
" I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy. "
Eddie Marsan
History
I Love
Love
" I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor. "
Eddie Marsan
House
Stage
Time
" My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do. "
Eddie Marsan
Boo
Who
Playing
" I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking. "
Eddie Marsan
Me
Job
Camera
" When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13. "
Eddie Marsan
Boy
House
Man