Latest Eddie Redmayne Quotes from Interviews

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• People ask, "Do you enjoy acting?" But you only have those specific few hours to do a scene, and then you drive home and wait for six months to find out how it went. You can't go back and put in a new idea. Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting. Certainly I would say that fear is a part of that.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handing over that fear to the director, who has to make sense of all those options!

  Eddie Redmayne

  Ideas, Doubt, Directors

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Feelings, Different, Impossible

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Feels, Knows, Versus

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Actors, Belief, Because I Can

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hard Work, Messing Up, Work Harder

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Years, Two, Potters

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!

  Eddie Redmayne

  Want, Way, Screws

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I feel like J.K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.

  Eddie Redmayne

  People, World, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Thinking, Comedy, Spontaneous

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• In England we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Acting, Want, Miserable

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2011.

• I love the variety of films. In theater, you go into a room and the director runs the room, so you all work to his or her method. On film, if an actor or an actress is in for a day or two, the director has to get out of that actor what they need, so they have to change and adapt to that actor's technique.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Running, Two, Technique

  Source: collider.com

• Tequila is my salmon.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Salmon, Tequila

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. Janaury 12, 2015.

• This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Book, Luxury, Attention

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.