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Stephen Rea Quotes

Stephen Rea Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Stephen Rea
Type:
Actor
Nationality:
Irish
Birth day:
October 31
Birth year:
1946

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    Acting is way of making yourself exist. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    Actors, the good actors, always want to talk about what they're doing, always want to give other people space to do what they're doing. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    And I remember being knocked out by The Butcher Boy. My first experience of it was in New York when Patrick McCabe read extracts from it. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    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-ReaStephen Rea
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    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-ReaStephen Rea
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    I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    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-ReaStephen Rea
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    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-ReaStephen Rea
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    My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    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-ReaStephen Rea
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    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-ReaStephen Rea
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    The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea
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    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-ReaStephen Rea
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    With Field Day, we'd often play places where they hadn't seen professional actors in 30 years. Everyone in the community would come and see you. Stephen-ReaStephen Rea