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I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

~Eddie Marsan

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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

~Eddie Marsan

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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

~Eddie Marsan

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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

~Eddie Marsan

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I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

~Eddie Marsan

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I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Acting After Agent Concentrated Drama Drama School Eventually Getting Going Likely Most Off Paid Parties Rather Right School Succeed Ten Ten Years Than Voted Years

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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

~Eddie Marsan

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I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

~Eddie Marsan

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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

~Eddie Marsan

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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

~Eddie Marsan

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: Unknown

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