Quotes by Jeremy Northam - Page 1

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Famous
Actors
Desire
Shy
Lots
Extremely
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As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Actors
Play
Roles
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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Sponges
Thinking
Absorb
Emerge
Sponge
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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Jobs
Fiction
Heart
Paradox
Job
Actually
Surely
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I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Giving
I Can
People
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The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Ancient
Drama
Memories
Views
Affects
Hidden
Imaginations
Primordial
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The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Love
Peace
Cooking
Funny Things
Light
London
Norfolk
Peaceful
Rarely
Wonderfully
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People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Kids
Children
Evasion
People
Sake
Me People Will
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It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Jobs
Life
Taken
Life Your Me
Life Me Rest
Experiences
Life Me Your
For The People
Life Experiences
Span
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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Jobs
Particular
Reading
Thinking
Woven
Global
Hired
Joys
Script
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I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Children
Energy
Scary
Tomorrow
Life Time Energy
By The Time
Conceived
Consider
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There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Critical
Examination
Carry
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I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
War
Children
Eternity
Growing Up
Wars
Different World
Entirely
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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Former
Moscow
Realizing
Spy
Advertise
Readily
Spies
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I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Done
Fashion
Names
Publicity
Although
Chat
Interview
Magazine
Preferred
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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Aesthetic
Arena
Debate
Drama
Moral
Acts
Discussions
Producing
Stylistic
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He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Humor
Brutal
Elegant
Patronizing
Sarcastic
Sense Of Humor
Thinking
Tone
Pretty
Appealed
Came
Manner
Page
Rather
Sense
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I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Journey
Cards
Cards On The Table
Character
Revealed
Table
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I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Hotel
Islands
Jamaica
Nice
Particular
Island
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Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Bizarre
Pierce
Years Ago
Movies People New
Interview
New People
Selecting
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I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Disappear
Energy
Ideas
Thinking
First Thing
Good Idea
Mental
Sees
The First Thing
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I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Approach
Different
People
Want
Always People Feel
People Feel Doing
However
Performance
Same Thing
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My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Dad
Home
Air
Air Force
Crew
Direct
Indirect
Sacrifice
Self Sacrifice
Experiences
Ground
Main
Main Thing
Near
Served
Several
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I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Miles
Spread
Time Myself People
Circle
Entirely
Hour
Million
Thin
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Documentaries
Drama
Events
Fiction
Human Nature
Tied
Dramas
Fictions
Novels
Otherwise
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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Drama
Memories
Views
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