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Jeremy Northam Quotes
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I always want to do things that are different. I dont want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I dont consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow Id be 52 by the time it was 10. Im not sure Id have the energy, and I find that quite scary. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I dont have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think its a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isnt you, but the part. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because thats somehow theres always a journey to go on. Theres always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Lets go! - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they dont readily advertise themselves unless theyre not living in Moscow, and even then. Im sure Ive met some without realizing it. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Id always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Im just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Ive never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Ive never had a huge circle of friends. I cant spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I cant do that with everyone. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Ive never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - Ive done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Its taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. Thats a job for the people who lived through it. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesnt really talk about it. I know that its there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so theres a certain toughness about it. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
People will say that its some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. Id want to have the child for the childs sake, if that makes sense. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. Its a paradox thats at the heart of any kind of storytelling. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Theres so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadnt done many movies, and of going on for an interview. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
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