Jeremy Brett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Eye #Mind #Acting
The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Greatness #Challenges #Important
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Heart #Men #Play
Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Hero #Villain #Boring
Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Arrows #Trying #Flight
I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Stars #Thinking #Kevin
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Men #Lovely #Males
I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Yoga #Trying #Too Much
I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Stories #Actors #Done
Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Bravery #Lips #Sometimes
I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Mean #Play #Space
To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Long #Important #Stories

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