I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 1
I'd 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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
I'm 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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've 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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
It's 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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Ellis Peters's 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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
I don't think he's 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 British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0