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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

Eddie Marsan's Popular Quotes

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and s…

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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. B…

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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs abo…

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I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: …

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My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

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I think one of the London Film Festival strengths is that it's set in London but it's not about London. It's about the diversity of this city and it'…

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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

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When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes we…

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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing …

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