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We'll be back. I promise you that.
Samuel West / Actor
I Promise
Promise
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Most actors are socialists, aren't they?
Samuel West / Actor
Most
Socialists
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Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.
Samuel West / Actor
American Liberty
Ends
Liberty
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I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.
Samuel West / Actor
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I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.
Samuel West / Actor
Mass
Play
Soldier
Sideline
Soldiers
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Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.
Samuel West / Actor
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What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'
Samuel West / Actor
Actors
Parent
Plumber
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What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.
Samuel West / Actor
Air
Believe
Issues
Peculiar
Theatre
Medium
Vital
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Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
Samuel West / Actor
Art
Good Art
Right Wing
Wings
Wing
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My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
Samuel West / Actor
Ambition
Forecasts
Shipping
Forecast
Remaining
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The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
Samuel West / Actor
Clever
Ideas
Laughable
Russia
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I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.
Samuel West / Actor
Dad
Ease
My Dad
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It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
Samuel West / Actor
Running
Accountants
Circus
Accountant
Away
Run
Something Else
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I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
Samuel West / Actor
Acting
Coward
Tests
Test
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At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
Samuel West / Actor
Jobs
Childhood
Cities
Continuing
Heart
Sheffield
Theatre
For The People
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When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.
Samuel West / Actor
Different
People
Variety
Wells
Life My Life People
People Say
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Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
Samuel West / Actor
Angry
Debate
Feelings
Morality
Revenge
Hamlet
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When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.
Samuel West / Actor
Can Do
Thirds
Two
Best Do Your Best Your
Best Your Bad
Chose
Do Your Best
Third
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If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
Samuel West / Actor
Done
Instance
Passing
Play
Staggering
Torches
Weight
Carrying
Torch
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Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
Samuel West / Actor
Hilarious
Independence
Afghanistan
Monument
Mullahs
Revolution
Stamps
Revolutions
Fish
Suddenly
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I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
Samuel West / Actor
Mean
Reading
Thinking
Alone Time Good
Literally
Main
Main Thing
Relaxing
Tube
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Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Samuel West / Actor
Book
Lucky
Thinking
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I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Samuel West / Actor
Bores
Pillow
Work Always Enough
Allowed
Collected
Work Enough Always
Work Me Always
One Book
Shakespeare
Whose
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Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
Samuel West / Actor
Book
Gaps
Two
Writing
Exist
Discover
Fill
Marks
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
Samuel West / Actor
Bedroom
Parent
Reading
Two
In Fact
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I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.
Samuel West / Actor
Children
Different Worlds
Growing Up
Harder
Hate
Viewpoints
Pretend
Grow Up
Misunderstand
Worlds
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[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.
Samuel West / Actor
Men
Confusion
Law
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It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.
Samuel West / Actor
Men
Heaven
Law
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