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Derek Jacobi Quotes
Actors, I dont think, ever really grow up. Im hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. Ive been very lucky. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Curiously, they did market research on accents and found the two accents that turned most people off on English television were Birmingham and Wales. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Ellis Peterss historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying youve been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. Ive always been a city fellow, but Ive often had vague thoughts about checking out and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I dont think hes permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of ones lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name? - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I hope Sir Larry be proud of whats happened. I certainly learned a huge amount from him. He was always very generous to the young actors. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I never lose that terror of this is my last job, Ill never work again. You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation youve built. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. Were switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because were in the business of transferring emotions to other people. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, Well if acting doesnt work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something. Fortunately, the acting worked out. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I truly dont know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I was very lucky. I was an only child, but I was very ucky in that their response to that was If thats what you want to do, do it. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
I would like to be as fit as Ive always been. Ive been blessed with good health, Ive been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Id gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head! - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Im always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Ive been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And its wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it! - Derek Jacobi Quotes
It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Its often difficult to slough off all that weve acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Its too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They werent particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head! - Derek Jacobi Quotes
One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. - Derek Jacobi Quotes
Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life! - Derek Jacobi Quotes
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