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They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: Always Been Closed Did Doors Everything Life My Life Opened Otherwise Saw See Something Supportive Theater Them Thrills Totally Were Would

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Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: Been Boxes Every Get Letter Little Minister Offered Opportunity Person Prime Prime Minister Recommended Say Saying Says Two Who Yes You

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I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

~Derek Jacobi

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Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

~Derek Jacobi

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I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

~Derek Jacobi

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Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

~Derek Jacobi

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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

~Derek Jacobi

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You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: Actor Around Climate Clothes Director Had Help Imagine Live Lived Obviously Other Pretend Technicians Then Those Within Writer You

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What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.

~Derek Jacobi

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It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

~Derek Jacobi

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: October 22nd, 1938

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