Quotes by David Suchet - Page 1

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.
David Suchet / Actor
Comedy
Deep Inside
Desperate
Inside
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I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.
David Suchet / Actor
People
Stardom
Want
Me People See
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Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.
David Suchet / Actor
Actors
Play
Contains
Inevitably
Plays
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I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.
David Suchet / Actor
Music Love
Relax
Way
Love Music Great
Classical
Great Way
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A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.
David Suchet / Actor
Actors
Salesman
Successful
Swindlers
Great Actor
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I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
David Suchet / Actor
Teen
Growing Up
Meditation
Typical
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Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
David Suchet / Actor
Faith
Blind
Blind Faith
Although
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Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.
David Suchet / Actor
Men
Blind
Emotional
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So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.
David Suchet / Actor
Italian
Outsiders
Would Be
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I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
David Suchet / Actor
Cameras
Digital
Photography
Trying
Catch
Generation
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I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.
David Suchet / Actor
Great
Bored
Days Off
Watches
Never
Great Day Never
Cafe
Day
Watch
Ever
Got
Off
Observe
Sit
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I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.
David Suchet / Actor
Men
Thinking
Years
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I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.
David Suchet / Actor
Able
Actors
Not Interested
People
Me Gift People
Showing
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I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'
David Suchet / Actor
Acting
Interesting
Years
Directing
Recently
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I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.
David Suchet / Actor
Differences
Fascinated
Novelists
People
Writing
Playwrights
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I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.
David Suchet / Actor
Accused
Losing
Suppose
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When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.
David Suchet / Actor
Documentaries
Littles
London
Real
Shooting
Round
Slum
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I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
David Suchet / Actor
Illumination
Remembered
Wonderful
Love Character People
Brought
Character Actor
Delivered
Performance
Plays
Rethink
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I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.
David Suchet / Actor
Isle
Speech
Outsider
Three-Quarters
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I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.
David Suchet / Actor
Work Movies Done
Liked
Reached
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It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.
David Suchet / Actor
Attention
Boards
Murder Mysteries
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That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.
David Suchet / Actor
Film Acting
Release
Television
Ignore
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When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.
David Suchet / Actor
Famous
Add
Expand
Intended
Performance
Three-Dimensional
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I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are.
David Suchet / Actor
Character
People
Thinking
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What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.
David Suchet / Actor
Democracy
Ordinary
Thinking
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There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.
David Suchet / Actor
Drug
Guy
Thinking
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I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.
David Suchet / Actor
Graduation
Age
Character
Height
Theatre
Voice
Age Myself Always
Short
Repertory
Shape
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My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions.
David Suchet / Actor
Character
Fun
Moving
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When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
David Suchet / Actor
Acting
Changed
Character
Philosophy
Realised
Voice
Writer
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I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty.
David Suchet / Actor
Queens
Levels
Names
Thinking
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I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.
David Suchet / Actor
Appreciation
Meaningful
Views
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The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater, and also British radio. In fact, my dream as an actor when I started out was to be able to work in all the media. Thankfully, that's what I'm being given to do.
David Suchet / Actor
Blessed
Thankfully
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I think its very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - its just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
David Suchet / Actor
Ideas
Reality
Thinking
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I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
David Suchet / Actor
Controversial
Mindless
Reality Tv
Maintain
Status
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When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
David Suchet / Actor
Teacher
Britain
Clever
Clever Man
English Teacher
Great Britain
Talent
Theatre
Youth
Macbeth
Surgeon
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I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.
David Suchet / Actor
Appreciation
Aspire
Meaningful
World View
Although
Faith World Me
Convert
Evangelist
Fail
Relationships
View
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In so many roles I've played the outsider. As an outsider, you have more energy to succeed simply because you are an outsider. There are scripts floating around but they're not coming my way and I think that I am getting a little bit too old to play Napoleon. But if I was ever offered the role I would grab it.
David Suchet / Actor
Energy
Play
Thinking
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As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do.
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Hard Work
Player
Stars
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I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility.
David Suchet / Actor
Character
Real
Responsibility
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In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.
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Kings
Mean
Pain
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The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.
David Suchet / Actor
Character
Hollywood
People
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Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!
David Suchet / Actor
Men
War
Army
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I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from my television public. There's still a part of me that wishes that my character range could be seen on the big screen. Rather, as Rod Steiger was, because he was a big influence on me - about becoming other people and not worrying about your own glory or self esteem but sacrificing yourself to become somebody else.
David Suchet / Actor
Character
Sacrifice
Self Esteem
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