Eddie Marsan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What I love about the East End is that theres a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Perseverance #Determination #Ignorance
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Ego #Needs #Actors
I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?
-- Eddie Marsan

#Swimming #Clothes #Wife
I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Thinking #Faces #Comedy
The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Character #Thinking #Acting
I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Fashion #Stars #Thinking
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Hard Work #Simple #Asking Questions
I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Character #Thinking #Play
My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Jobs #Shows
I think one of the London Film Festival strengths is that it's set in London but it's not about London. It's about the diversity of this city and it's about world cinema. And that's what London is - London is a place where its identity is always in a state of flux. So, this festival celebrates the way in which it is always changing. That's why London is a fascinating place and that's why the film festival is a fascinating film festival.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Thinking #Diversity #Identity
Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Race #Class #People
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Play #Suffering #Actors
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Character #Men #Play
I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
-- Eddie Marsan

#Thinking #Years #Wife
I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
-- Eddie Marsan

#House #Actors #Firsts
I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Drama #Party #School
I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Fun #Thinking #Play
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
-- Eddie Marsan

#School #Class #People
I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Singers #Film #Wanted
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Character #Boys #Play
I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Stars #Thinking #Oxford
I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Kids #Responsibility #Wife
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Clever #Careers #Feet

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