Quotes by Jack Davenport - Page 1

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Dance
Dance Music
Gay
Nightclubs
Offers
Offer
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Recognised
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Advice
Breaking Promises
Mother
Show Business
Breaking
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I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Achieved
Both My Parents
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Brad
Significant
Brad Pitt
Charles
Pitt
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People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Being Nice
Faces
New Faces
Me People New
Loves
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Divorce
Ill
Messy
Good Me Parents
Boarding
Boarding School
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Childhood
Fun
Sticks
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Sticks
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Consistently
Fortunate
Grateful
Cue
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Well Written
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
Jack Davenport / Actor
Looking Forward
Son
Star
Forward
Harry
Looking Forward Looking People
Longer
Whoa
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Realise
Tribe
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Annoying
Only Child
Outgoing
Confident
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When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Majority
Middle Class
Fairly
Albert
Burst
Vast
Sudden
Sudden People
Vast Majority
Young Actor
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because its not necessarily the easiest of lives.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Acting
Children
Discouraged
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Discouraged
Easiest
Route
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Life My Life Born
Bill
Bury
Maternal
Royals
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyones going Hey! and the next theyre going Who?. You certainly dont need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Acting
Knowing
People
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Paint
Strokes
Time People Short
Broad
Period
Introduce
Pilot
Short Period
Slightly
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Hey
One Minute
Business Enough Your
Attached
Cruel
Business People Your
Minute
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If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Dwarves
People
Play
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Adult actors are really childish, and thats nice to be around when youre a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Kids
Adults
Nice
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Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Enjoyed
Shallow
Childish
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When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.
Jack Davenport / Actor
Moving
Past
Regret
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