KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Eddie Marsan Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Eddie Marsan

Showing 11-20 of 79 Quotes by Eddie Marsan

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Big Big Thing Cambridge Could Deciding Gone Guy Had Handsome Like Longevity Looked Massive More Movie Movie Star Next Novel Oxford Reliable Someone Something Sometimes Star Thing Think Who Young Young Guy

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Comedy Face Happened Know Lot Think Used I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: About Acting Asking Asking Questions Great Hard Imagination Mystery People Questions See Simple Spiritual Talking Thing Using Very Work Work Hard You Your I See

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Above Act Acting Anonymity Because Being By The Time Character Crap Doing Jobs Knew Learn Learned Lucky Me Off People Pubs Saw Show Show Off Started Think Thoughts Time Time People Trade Trick Years You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Audience Ego Great Liked Need Respected Want

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Age Come Each Glasses Never Other Over People Place Pub Scared See Smashing Them Tough Used Violence Where Worked

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: About Away Did Done Go Going Loads Meetings Months Never Pool Project Quality Say Seriously Seven Six Something Thing Think Wait Want Where Wife Year Years You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Brando Character Eyes Films Gene Karl Lad Robert Rod Spencer Spencer Tracy Them Think Tracy Watching Were Young I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Because Character Fascinate Gay Interest Interesting Me Never Played Screen Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Always Bond Ever Everyone Fun Going Got Great Great Fun Had Love Make Me Never Play Say Says Think Villain Yeah You I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Eddie Marsan on Amazon

Related Authors

Max Beerbohm
Michael Caine
Charlie Chaplin
John Cleese
Tom Hiddleston
Christopher Lee
Oliver Reed
Peter Ustinov

Popular Authors

James A. Baldwin Edmund Burke Viktor E. Frankl Sigmund Freud Joyce Meyer Barack Obama Alexander Pope Will Smith

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1888 - Dale Carnegie

1632 - Baruch Spinoza

1713 - Junipero Serra

1713 - Laurence Sterne

1740 - John Bacon

1784 - Zachary Taylor

1808 - Alphonse Karr

1826 - Carlo Collodi

1864 - Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

1876 - Ameen Rihani

Birthdays on November 24th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Chance Death Good Graduation Movies Politics Respect Teen