Jeremy Brett Quotes

• You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

  Jeremy Brett

  Eye, Mind, Acting

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• The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.

  Jeremy Brett

  Greatness, Challenges, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

  Jeremy Brett

  Long Ago, Important, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.

  Jeremy Brett

  Hunting, Type, Found

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• I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

  Jeremy Brett

  Stories, Actors, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

  Jeremy Brett

  Dark, Moon, Sides

  "he Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes - The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett". Book by Terry Manners, p. 212, March 20, 1997.

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• Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

  Jeremy Brett

  Arrows, Trying, Flight

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• I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

  Jeremy Brett

  Yoga, Trying, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

  Jeremy Brett

  Men, Lovely, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

  Jeremy Brett

  Hero, Villain, Boring

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• Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

  Jeremy Brett

  Bravery, Lips, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

  Jeremy Brett

  Heart, Men, Swag

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• I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

  Jeremy Brett

  Stars, Thinking, Kevin

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• I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

  Jeremy Brett

  Mean, Play, Space

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