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" I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face. "
Eddie Marsan
Comedy
Used
Think
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" I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times. "
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" I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it. "
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" I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish. "
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" 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. "
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" Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't. "
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" Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground. "
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Feet
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do. "
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" 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. "
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Come
You
" I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points. "
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Well
School
" I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me. "
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Women
You
Men
" 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?' "
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Wife
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" I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination. "
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Work
Great
" I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt. "
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Brad
" I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films. "
Eddie Marsan
Wanted
Like
Singer
" 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.' "
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People
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" I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me. "
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Me
People
" I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy. "
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History
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" I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker. "
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Jazz
" 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. "
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" When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door. "
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Advertising
School
" My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well. "
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Done
Friends
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" When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life. "
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People
" The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character. "
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Acting
Think
" 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. "
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" I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants. "
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