If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."

- Antony Sher

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

- Antony Sher

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

- Antony Sher

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random qu…

- Antony Sher

Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but …

- Antony Sher

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird ac…

- Antony Sher

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself fro…

- Antony Sher

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops …

- Antony Sher

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whethe…

- Antony Sher