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The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
Samuel West Quotes: The idea that if you
What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'
Samuel West Quotes: What did my parents say
We'll be back. I promise you that.
Samuel West Quotes: We'll be back. I promise
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
Samuel West Quotes: My one remaining professional ambition
Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.
Samuel West Quotes: Shakespeare I love, but for
[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he ... introduces confusion and disorder into society ... [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.
Samuel West Quotes: [P]erfect freedom consists in obeying
If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
Samuel West Quotes: If you play a part
I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.
Samuel West Quotes: I'm rather proud of having
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
Samuel West Quotes: I am a coward, basically,
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
Samuel West Quotes: At heart, this job is
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
Samuel West Quotes: I'm not very good at
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.
Samuel West Quotes: When people say, 'If I
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
Samuel West Quotes: Most good art is left
I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.
Samuel West Quotes: I usually play toffs and
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
Samuel West Quotes: Of course 'Hamlet' is a
I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.
Samuel West Quotes: I really do think the
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
Samuel West Quotes: It would've been hard to
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
Samuel West Quotes: I did start reading quite
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.
Samuel West Quotes: It is our duty to
Most actors are socialists, aren't they?
Samuel West Quotes: Most actors are socialists, aren't
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