American - Actor | August 28, 1943 -
At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.
David Soul
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Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.
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I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.
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Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.
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Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
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I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.
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It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
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The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
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Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
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I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.
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If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
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