Quotes by Kenneth Cranham - Page 1

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Great Food
Great Wine
Wine
Enhanced
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I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Existence
Four
London
Scottish
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The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Boys
Film
Firsts
First Thing
Footage
Skier
The First Thing
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You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my 'Harvey Moon' years, then as an old actor.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Harvey
Moon
Succeed
Young Actor
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The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Editor
Great Thing
Medium
Yours
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I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Teacher
Orange
School
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I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Clockwork
Orange
By The Time
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Rye
Versed
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When I was in Lochgelly as a boy, I went to the cinema every night - and on Sundays, I used to go to Cowdenbeath and see something there.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Cinema
Every Night
Sundays
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Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Wine
Bottle
Christopher
Confirming
Loves
Orders
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I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I've played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the train across the Forth Bridge to Lochgelly, just to see it.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Edinburgh
Scotland
Twice
Bridge
Festival
Forth
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The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Exhilarating
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The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Cinema
Babies
Bill
Live People See
Double
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My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Beef
Cooking
Ferguson
Grandfather
Grandmother
Grandparent
Poverty
Scottish
Butcher
Harry
Loads
Slow
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When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Jump
Till
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If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Employed
Surprising
Pen
Swap
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Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Afternoon
Caught
Cinema
Glamour
Mum
Towns
Love Mind Me
Dominated
Fife
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I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Clarity
Productions
Thrill
Love Always Me
Love Me Bond
Bond
Edward
Harold
His Way
Immediately
Joe
Suppose
Playwrights
Texts
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Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Buying
Caught
Gambling
Thrill
Vintage
Waiting
Win Or Lose
Tips
Bet
Expectation
Match
Placing
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You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.
Kenneth Cranham / Film Actor
Obsessive
Refining
Sculpting
Time Best Your
Blueprint
Best Time Night
Happiest
Surpass
Yours
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