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10 quotes by Jamie Sives

Jamie Sives (/ˈsiːvəs/ SEE-vəs; born 1973 in Lochend, Edinburgh) is a Scottish actor. Sives studied at Leith Academy and worked as a scaffolder, as a postman and as a club doorman in Edinburgh before turning to acting full time. He is currently playing the role of King James III of Scotland in the National Theatre of Scotland's production of King James III.
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To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few... →

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I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of... →

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I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

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I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

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I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

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I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.

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I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

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Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur... →

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I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my... →

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The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same... →

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