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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Funny Hard Like Looked Me Tough

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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Acting Actor Case Come Finding Lot Me Myself Regardless Think Way Where Which I Think

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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Artist Because Blow Craftsman Ever Friend Great He Mine My Own Natural Own Trumpet

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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Brad Brad Pitt Cruise Like Look Love Make Me Men Pitt Put Screen Tom Tom Cruise Want Women You

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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. 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

Topics: Actor Being Beings Characters Doing Get Guy He Human Human Being Human Beings Lot Me Needs Oh People Play Plays Saying Thinks Understand Villain Wants Who Why You

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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Baker Big Geek Jazz Listen Lot Love Sinatra I Love

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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Before Destroyed East End Good Good Job Had Job Lucrative Printer Unions Very

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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

~Eddie Marsan

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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Around Celebration Chekhov Come Degree Family First Got Her Ignorance See Shakespeare Sister Sit Time Tv Watching Watching Tv Who

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: Unknown

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