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24 quotes by Jeremy Northam

Jeremy Philip Northam (born 1 December 1961) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Gosford Park, Emma, Amistad, The Winslow Boy, Enigma, Martin and Lewis, Happy, Texas, The Golden Bowl, Creation and as Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors. Most recently, he starred in the BBC Two drama White Heat.
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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... →

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My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main... →

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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... →

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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even... →

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There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort... →

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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

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The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

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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... →

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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... →

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I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd... →

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People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's... →

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As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

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