Steven Berkoff Quotes

I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.

Steven Berkoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 3, 1937

Topics

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I always acted in high school. Actually, I started in preschool. I was in a play about Jesus. I went to a Catholic school and played an angel and recited some poem about Jesus. It felt so long to me at the time.

Maura Tierney

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Being diagnosed with cancer is terrifying.

Stefan Karl Stefansson

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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Robert E. Lee

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I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

Mick Mulvaney

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I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.

Molly Bloom

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A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

Johnny Knoxville

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Do not be deceived by impostors.

Clayton M. Christensen

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In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

Bruce Feirstein

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Bad excuses are worse than none.

Thomas Fuller

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I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.

Noma Dumezweni

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Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Nigel Kennedy

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When I decided to crop what was left of my hair, I thought, 'It's all over. I'm never going to work again: it's basket weaving me for me from now on.' But what actually happens is your casting changes: you suddenly start to get a lot of villains and coppers and soldiers and even the odd sensitive vicar - you become institutionalised.

Mark Strong

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