English - Actor | May 2, 1946 -
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.
David Suchet
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I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
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The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater, and also British radio. In fact, my dream as an actor when I started out was to be able to work in all the media. Thankfully, that's what I'm being given to do.
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When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.
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That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.
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I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
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Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
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Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.
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I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'
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I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.
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I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.
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I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.
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