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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

~Eddie Izzard

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Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

~Eddie Kaye Thomas

Topics: Awkwardness Being Being A Teenager Even Everyone Relate Seems Teenager

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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Asking Being Camera Eulogy Find Front Funeral Get Job Knowing Me People Self-Conscious Speech Think Used Very Wedding You

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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

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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

Topics: About Actor Always Behave Being Being Honest Between Career Choices Choose Clever Example Fantastic Feet Film Film Set Great Great Example Ground He His Honest How Jim Kept Learned Making Me Mike Set Someone Taught Who You

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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

Topics: Being Beings Characters Doing Get Guy He Human Human Being Human Beings Needs Play Plays Thinks Understand Villain Wants Who Why You

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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

Topics: Actor Advantage Artistic Becoming Being Certain Certain Extent Express Extent Had Leaving Leg Less More Myself Need Never People Printer Prove Qualifications School Then Up Who Working Working-Class

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I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

~Eddie Marsan

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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 was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.

~Eddie Mcclintock

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