Quotes by Stephen Rea - Page 1

Acting is way of making yourself exist.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Acting
Way
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My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Kids
Used
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My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Exactly What
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I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Art
Ambiguous
Great Art
Thinking
Art Great Always
Pinned
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You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Ifs
Knows
Nightmare
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I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Acting
Enjoy
Hooked
Stills
Enjoying
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I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Brothels
Thinking
Brothel
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Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Angel
Film
Firsts
Feature
Feature Film
Irish
Neil
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Smile
Cameras
Gloomy
People
Ask
Always Me People
Smile Me People
Smile Always Me
Camera
Somehow
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I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Laptops
People Live See
Live People See
Enslaved
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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Famous
Behave
Believe
Fame
Fashion
People
Business Believe People
Suffer
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I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Celluloid
Digital
Camera
Proper
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At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Acting
Being Yourself
Cameras
Be Yourself
Camera
Who Am I
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Actors
Directors
Nerves
Confuse
Worst Thing
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I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Dying
Scared
Scary
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Count
Shaping
Supporting
Supporting Role
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The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Good Movie
Romance
Sex
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People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Careers
Fulfilled
Games
People
Game People Doing
Crying
Led
Refer
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That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Acting
Bored
Elsewhere
Want
Camera
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I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Acting
Guy
Moving
Scripts
Good Scripts
List
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I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Believe
Faces
Sad Face
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You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Disappear
Pity
Good Money Movies
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I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Ambition
Denial
Son
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We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Exploration
Suggest
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I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Cinema
Saws
Teenager
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I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Cinema
Identification
No Point
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The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Hilarious
Ambiguity
Novel
Appalling
Butcher
Indeed
Irish
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I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Interesting
Might
Play
Productions
Worthwhile
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I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Missing
Pompous
Pretentious
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At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Country
Division
Ireland
Looking Back
People
Something New
Sectarian
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I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Ashamed
Ireland
People
Thinking
Years
Background
North
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I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Assumption
Identical
Matter
Wife
Years
Years Ago
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When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.
Stephen Rea / Film Actor
Able
Acting
Coltrane
Five
Nice
Physics
Player
Saxophone
Job
Studied
Done Your Better
Sure
Be Nice
Both
Better Done Your
Trumpet
John
Something Else
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