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" Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into. "
Eddie Marsan
Powerful
Sometimes
Us
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" I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat. "
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You
" I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so. "
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" 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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" Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman. "
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Artist
Mine
My Own
" 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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" I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me. "
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" 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
" With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role. "
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Play
Face
Character
" 'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance. "
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Tell
Dark
Jokes
" I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.' "
Eddie Marsan
Meetings
You
Wife
" I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face. "
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Comedy
Used
Think
" When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it. "
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Theatre
Myself
Ambition
" I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points. "
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Academic
Well
School
" Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't. "
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Education
Give
Sense
" 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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Play
Way
Violence
" I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion. "
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Think
Go
Stars
" As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control. "
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Children
Say
Control
" 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. "
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You
Star
Know
" 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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Kind
People
Inspiration
" Art is the job of the privileged. "
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Privileged
Art
Job
" I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off. "
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Succeed
Drama
Acting
" 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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Stars
Life
People
" The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A. "
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You
Worst
Next
" 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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People
Work
Great
" 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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Worry
Great
Wife
" I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart. "
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Think
Always
Strange
" 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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Job
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" I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy. "
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I Love
Love
" I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do. "
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" I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me. "
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