Quotes by Adam Rayner - Page 1

I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Becoming
Growing Up
Stars
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Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Motivation
Real
Sometimes
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If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Deals
Offers
Three
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I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Proved
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'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Fun
Homeland
Spy
Stuff
Cloak
Dagger
So Much Fun
Thriller
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We shot a bit of 'Hunted' in Tangier, and you are in a very, very different world. It's very difficult to blend in over there.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Hunted
Blend
Different World
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To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Gorgeous
Stardom
Vampire
Bar
Rocket
To Be Honest
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I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Blood
British
Eastern
Middle
As Far As
Aware
Middle Eastern
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We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Impassioned
Moments
Love Hate People
Normally
Rarely
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I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Naturally
Devour
Huge Amounts
Inclined
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I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Life Great Your
Huge Star
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I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.
Adam Rayner / Actor
California
Feels
Time Great Me
Time Great Where
Certainly
Definitely
Towards
Pull
Sliver
Spent
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If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Granted
Ifs
Take Nothing For Granted
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Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Drama
Homeland
Intrigue
Spy
Bit
Obviously
Palace
Thriller
Tyrant
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We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Opportunity
Film
Twilight
Waiting
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Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Gone
Guy
Long
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I was always interested in it when I was younger, but it was when I was at university, getting together with other like-minded theatrically inclined types, that I admitted to myself that I wanted to be an actor.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Admitted
Myself Together Always
Inclined
Types
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That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Drama School
Great Thing
Next Step
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My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Norfolk
Primary School
Six
Accent
Dropped
Immediately
Primary
Rural
Teased
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Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Compelling
Intelligent
Truthful
Tyrant
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British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Aspire
American Audiences
Audiences
American See More
Reflected
Whereas
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Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Fantastic
Me Rest People
Persecute
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So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Dictator
Eastern
Married
Son
Al
Barry
Doctor
Chap
Fictional
Grown
Middle Eastern
Trained
Tyrant
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People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be a compelling narrative that drives along and keeps people coming back week after week. So really, with any successful show you could name, there has to be a mysterious blend of both of those.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Compelling
Mysterious
Narrative
Blend
Respond
Drives
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