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Derek Jacobi Quotes: I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
         

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.


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We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.



Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.



There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.



Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.



I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.



He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.



Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.



It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.



It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.



I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.





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Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.

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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.



I had things with numbers - because I love numbers - but it's not something I'm proud of. I'm proud that I was able to send them away, because you're much more present.

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