Alexander Siddig Quotes

• I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

  Alexander Siddig

  Wish, Easier, Ambiguous

  "Alexander Siddig Is Part of Julian Schnabel’s Latest Cinematic Canvas". Interview with Ashley Wren Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's smart and handsome and rich... you know, he's quite the eligible guy. Well trained by the CIA. He's a very dangerous man indeed and he now has this franchise called Al Qaeda, which rivals Starbucks in its ubiquity.

  Alexander Siddig

  Smart, Men, Ubiquity

  Source: www.chud.com

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• You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

  Alexander Siddig

  Trying, Size, Volume

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

  Alexander Siddig

  Honesty, People, Way

  "Alexander Siddig - Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.

  Alexander Siddig

  Thinking, Hands, America

  Source: www.chud.com

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• There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other parts which somehow - I think they say they 'pop' - people notice that you're in and you become an actor from the movies and people take you in a whole different way. Whether or not I can keep that ball rolling is another matter.

  Alexander Siddig

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.

  Alexander Siddig

  People, Important, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.

  Alexander Siddig

  Relaxation, Needs, Littles

  "Alexander Siddig — Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

  Alexander Siddig

  War, People, Political

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• There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

  Alexander Siddig

  Roles, West, Enough

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• Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

  Alexander Siddig

  People, Grew Up, Grew

  "Alexander Siddig — Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

  Alexander Siddig

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Source: www.chud.com

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• You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

  Alexander Siddig

  People, Mind, Lucky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

  Alexander Siddig

  Games, Giving, Computer

  "Alexander Siddig Exclusive Interview; The CAIRO TIME Star Opens Up About DEEP SPACE NINE, MIRAL, His Sci-Fi Obsession, More". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

  Alexander Siddig

  Thinking, People, Roles

  "Alexander Siddig Is Part of Julian Schnabel’s Latest Cinematic Canvas". Interview with Ashley Wren Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

  Alexander Siddig

  Normal, Painful, Rhythm

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