Irish - Actor | October 31, 1946 -
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
Stephen Rea
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I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
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I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.
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My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
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People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
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That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
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The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
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You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.
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You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
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I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.
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I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
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