Christopher Eccleston quotes Born: 02/16/1964 Country: united_kingdom

• A year later, and I'm average again. (Christopher Eccleston)
• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. (Christopher Eccleston) [horror]
• Culturally we've always felt it important to express the life of the country, and working class comes into that. (Christopher Eccleston) [life/class]
• I came out of school in '79 when unemployment was really starting to bite, went back and redid my O-levels, there was a play going on and I was corralled into it. (Christopher Eccleston) [school]
• I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country. (Christopher Eccleston) [care/more/more]
• I didn't work for three years. I couldn't get arrested! I'd given up, really, and was working for my brother on a building site and working on the crew at the Royal Exchange Theatre, building sets and changing the scenery. (Christopher Eccleston) [exchange/theatre]
• I do pride myself-I think it's important in a creative environment-on being generous. (Christopher Eccleston) [pride/think/being]
• I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it. (Christopher Eccleston) [watch/being/being/light]
• I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out. (Christopher Eccleston)
• I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream! (Christopher Eccleston)
• I got to work with Ian Holm. David Cronenberg's very open and I think he just presumes that you're an intelligent person who's read the script and you know what he's on about. (Christopher Eccleston) [think]
• I had bags of energy as a kid. (Christopher Eccleston)
• I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility. (Christopher Eccleston) [help//responsibility]
• I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid. (Christopher Eccleston) [abuse/school]
• I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are. (Christopher Eccleston)
• I know what I need as an actor and I trust my instincts about scripts, but I'd be seriously lacking technically, as a director. (Christopher Eccleston) [trust/seriously/director]
• I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously. (Christopher Eccleston) [love/seriously]
• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. (Christopher Eccleston) [love/class]
• I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors. (Christopher Eccleston)
• I prefer British television in one sense because I still feel that the best-written scripts I get are for television. (Christopher Eccleston) [television/television]
• I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. (Christopher Eccleston) [think/film/television/theatre]
• I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. (Christopher Eccleston) [think/love]
• I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. (Christopher Eccleston) [think/theatre/experience/character]
• I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. (Christopher Eccleston)
• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it. (Christopher Eccleston) [think/think]
• I was also attracted by the idea of working with non-actors who were learning new skills. I thought it was an admirable impulse on the part of Pete Bowker to want to include people who are so often excluded. (Christopher Eccleston) [impulse/people]
• I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it. (Christopher Eccleston) [mind/time/school/take]
• I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really. (Christopher Eccleston) [being/being]
• I've been a first-timer. You've gotta give people a chance. (Christopher Eccleston) [give/people/chance]
• I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step. (Christopher Eccleston)
• It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. (Christopher Eccleston) [trace/parents]

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