Antony Sher Quotes - Page 2

• Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

  Antony Sher

  Resemblance Is, Play, Careers

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• I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens?

  Antony Sher

  Book, Rehearsal, Members

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• Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

  Antony Sher

  Years, Honest, Life Is

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• My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

  Antony Sher

  Grandparent, Lithuania, South

  "Antony Sher: 'Painting and writing stop me going crazy'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.

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• What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

  Antony Sher

  Acting, Firsts, Disguise

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