Quotes by Steven Berkoff - Page 1

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Antidote
Being Alone
Loneliness
Writing
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I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Form
Theater
Forms
Resistant
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If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Garbage
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Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Horrible
Plague
Facebook And Twitter
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Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Bad Guy
Remembers
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
House
Opera
Opera House
Administrator
Director
Run
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The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Garbage
Looks
Mainstream
Generally
Subsidized
Theaters
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I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Persuasive
Content
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We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Actuality
Find
Often
Far
More Power
Something
Symbol
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I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Audacity
Daring
Hardly
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Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Technology
Devil
Higher
Pay
Price
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When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Acting
Language
Movement
Used
Started
Actor
Enamoured
Enhance
Studying
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A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Critics
Eyesight
Given
Lost
Mediocre
Praise
Taste
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The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Deny
Life Love Humanity
Vital
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My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Leslie
First Name
Steven
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When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Magnificent
Working Class
Absolute
Write
Reveal
Ways
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In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Important
London
Thinking
Well Being
Nobody
Comments
Wear
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I may be 80, but I intend to keep acting until the day I die. Instead of slowing down, I've discovered my second wind.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Slowing
Wind
Intend
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I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Fiction
Mask
Satisfying
Purge
Vent
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A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Elegant
Too Much
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When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Class
Dishonesty
Found
Higher
Middle
Middle Class
Depths
Working
Got
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I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Devilish
Pickles
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That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Blunt
Linear
Pragmatic
Plain
Psyche
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The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Church
Pulpit
Theatre
Believe I Believe Your
Priest
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I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Julie
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It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Favourite
Impossible
Inspire
Different Parts
Parts
Plays
Rouse
Shakespeare
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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Actors
Soldier
Team
Generals
Soldiers
Theaters
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I'd like to be remembered with affection, with regard, and with just a smallest amount of admiration - that here's a man who walked against the tide.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Admiration
Affection
Amount
Regard
Remembered
Smallest
Tide
Walked
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After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Brain
Despair
Hardship
Neglected
Poor
Tattooed
Cause
Partner
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My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the age of seven, I was reading 100 books a year.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Education Age Me
Entirely
Once A Week
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I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Bad Guys
Delightful
Villain
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Amazing
Creating
Stories
Unconscious
Deep
Fantasies
Greeks
Penetrating
Worlds
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British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Deep Inside
Mirror
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Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Melting
Melting Pot
Picturesque
Pleasant
Arid
Awesome
Banal
Dropped
Plain
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I have a daughter from a relationship I had in my late teens or early 20s. Because I felt it wasn't the kind of pukka behaviour my family or relatives would admit to, I denied it for many years.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Behaviour
Denied
Early 20s
Teens
Admit
Late Teens
Relatives
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My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Distress
Primary School
Alien
Earliest
Strangers
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I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and ally. He seemed to possess no airs or attitudes, neuroses, or predilection towards tantrums.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Benign
Stanley
Tantrums
Warm
Ally
Attitudes
Liked
Towards
Neuroses
Offered
Possess
Seemed
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Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
History
Anti Semitism
Buried
Convenient
Dna
Gone
Prejudice
Within
Always Will Never
History Always Will
Away
Original
Deep
Gene
History Will Always
Jews
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Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Casting
Tainted
Transgender
Othello
Racial
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You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Insane
Snobbery
Treated
Cog
Just Be
Machine
Producer
Notice
Stunts
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There's a lot of talk about people being abused on Twitter, women being savagely insulted and degraded. I think, 'Why get into that in the first place?' If I jump into a garbage bin, I can't complain that I've got rubbish all over me.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Abuse
Garbage
Insulted
Rubbish
Women Me People
Twitter
Bin
Complain
Degraded
First Place
Jump
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When I have criticism that I feel is unfair, the rejection does disturb me, but it also strengthens me. I used to get turned down for all sorts of jobs. I used to writhe in pain, but then I would say, 'Good. Good. I will get stronger for this.'
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Jobs
Criticism
Pain
Rejection
Stronger
Unfair
Good Pain Me
Disturb
Strengthens
Turned
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An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Analysis
Controversial
Interpretation
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With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Attitude
Appreciate
Compassionate
Criticism
Failing
Movement
Needs
Support
Nature Good Men
Understand
Male
Finer
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Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Mindless
Realising
Robots
Element
Human Element
Ironically
Robot
Surrogate
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When I wrote 'East,' I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it not only satisfying but releasing. It gave me an opportunity to play with language. We never played the characters like the yobs that they are, but rather in a slightly heightened way.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
East
Satisfying
Sexy
Violent
Characters
Releasing
Slightly
Verse
Wrote
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If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up - define and refine you.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Jealous
Learning
Ambitious
Commitment
Competitors
Fame
Mistress
Reading
Ruthless
Study
Tv
Actor
Brook
Define
Total
Fill
Never Stop
Refine
Stop
Speeches
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During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Blitz
Every Night
Second World War
Shelter
Time War World
Beneath
Nights
War Time World
Each Time
Flat
Grab
Station
Underground
World War
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