South African - Writer | June 14, 1949 -
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
Antony Sher
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It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
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A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.
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I don't believe in an afterlife.
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My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
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When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.
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What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
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I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
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Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
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I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
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I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.
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I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
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