Stephen Rea famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Teenager #Saws #Cinema
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

#Years #Wife #Matter
My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.
-- Stephen Rea

#Kids #Used
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

#Sex #Romance #Good Movie
People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
-- Stephen Rea

#Smile #People #Cameras
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

#Play #Interesting #Might
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

#Games #Careers #People
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

#Bored #Acting #Want
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
-- Stephen Rea

#Actors #Directors #Nerves
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
-- Stephen Rea

#Acting #Enjoy #Stills
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
-- Stephen Rea

#Art #Thinking #Ambiguous
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

#Thinking #Years #Wife
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
-- Stephen Rea

#Acting #Way
Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
-- Stephen Rea

#Angel #Firsts #Film
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

#Being Yourself #Acting #Cameras
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

#Country #People #Division
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

#Dying #Scared #Afraid Of Death
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
-- Stephen Rea

#Fashion #Believe #People
I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
-- Stephen Rea

#Thinking #Brothels
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

#Moving #Guy #Acting
You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.
-- Stephen Rea

#Nightmare #Who You Are

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