English - Actor | August 25, 1957 -
As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.
Simon McBurney
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I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.
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I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?
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In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.
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In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.
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With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
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I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
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I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.
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