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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. "
Eddie Marsan
Artist
Mine
My Own
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" 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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" I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day. "
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" I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face. "
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Used
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" 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 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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Thought
Think
Lock
" 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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Up
Done
Friends
" I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it. "
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Playing
Know
" Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor. "
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Film
Star
Actor
" If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself. "
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Feel
Character
" 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. "
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Green
Class
Forever
" I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart. "
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Think
Always
Strange
" 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
" Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better! "
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Good
Magic
Men
" '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. "
Eddie Marsan
Tell
Dark
Jokes
" I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad. "
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Go
Day
Long
" 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 listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker. "
Eddie Marsan
Love
Listen
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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People
Doing
First
" If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually. "
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Face
You
Live
" I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points. "
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Academic
Well
School
" 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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Men
Friends
Happy
" 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. "
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Character
Watching
Young
" 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
" Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into. "
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Powerful
Sometimes
Us
" I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt. "
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Very
Brad Pitt
Brad
" 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. "
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Age
Tough
Violence
" 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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People
Boring
Find
" I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me. "
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