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" Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't. "
Eddie Marsan
Education
Give
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" I have my career and my family, and that's it. "
Eddie Marsan
Career
Family
" 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Play
Face
Character
" 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
" '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 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Women
You
Men
" 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Film
Star
Actor
" I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day. "
Eddie Marsan
Got
Toilet
Four
" I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there. "
Eddie Marsan
Green
Me
Love
" 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Villain
You
Understand
" 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 knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt. "
Eddie Marsan
Very
Brad Pitt
Brad
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Theatre
Myself
Ambition
" 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
" 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
" 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 want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience. "
Eddie Marsan
Actor
Audience
Ego
" 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 get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Saying
Villain
People
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me. "
Eddie Marsan
Funny
Looked
Tough
" 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 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Think
Go
Stars
" If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself. "
Eddie Marsan
You
Feel
Character
" 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
" 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. "
Eddie Marsan
Great
Feet
Choices