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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Fuss Job Know Make Much Professional Too Too Much Try Turn Up

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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Break Come Down Like Mechanic Phone Raining Should Whether You

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I have my career and my family, and that's it.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Career Family

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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Act Coffee Come Course Done Favour Go How Make Me Out Oxford Set Somebody Telling Think Turn Up Who You Bbc

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I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Academic Lots Points Reference School Well

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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Brad Brad Pitt Early Knew Pitt Very

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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Alec Beings Going Guinness Human Human Beings Inspiration Jim Kind Knew Like Looked People Play Really Them Thought

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As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Always Because Book Children Comics Control Guy Hold Identify Kids Myth Omnipotence Programme Read Say Successful Superheroes Tv Watch

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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Around Dark Darker Go Jokes Material More Ray Serious Set Tell Very Will You

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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Comedies Films Hardest Hardest Thing Miserable Most The Hardest Thing Thing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: Unknown

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