- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
British Actors Quotes
Voices from British actors on craft, training, and career.
These quotes gather British actors describing how their stage training shapes their approach, and how it compares to their American counterparts.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid. I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched 'Robin Hood,' 'Star Wars,' 'Highlander' and 'The Three Musketeers,' and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from documentaries, my biggest challenge was to understand actors' psychologies. American actors take it all very seriously; British actors don't enter into all this methody way of doing things.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
- Film Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, one, they are like me and grateful. Two, we turn up, and we know our lines. Three, we don't demand a 60 ft. Winnebago and PA, and four, largely we are very uncomplaining.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020