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He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

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It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

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Topics: Check Checked Civilization Could Distance Hard Life Luxurious Me Only Out Sense Somewhere Too Within

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We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

~Derek Jacobi

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I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

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I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

~Derek Jacobi

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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

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Topics: Actually Because Characters Hardest Knowledge Live Lived Often People Play Real-Life Recreate Those Up Who You

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I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

~Derek Jacobi

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You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: Actor Approaching Based Classical Get Hamlet Hoop Lear Older Qualifications Quality Then Through You Young Young Actor Your

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I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

~Derek Jacobi

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: October 22nd, 1938

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