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"Its true that old actors dont die, their parts get smaller. Youre less likely to get the part, many parts, if youre playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around."
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Albert FinneyI dont think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pr — Albert Finney
"I dont think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that were someone else. I dont tell tall tales. I always tell the truth."
I dont think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that were someone else. I dont tell tall
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Albert Finney
Albert Finney
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Albert Finney was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for film acting during the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre. He maintained a successful career on stage and screen.
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Albert Finney was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for film acting during the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre. He maintained a successful career on stage and screen.
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"To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memorys vault and mix in a sad memory from ones own life."
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"My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. The first time that he came to London when I was in the theatre and my name was in lights for the very first time and we had the same name, and he passed the theatre with me on the way, he was going to see a matinee and me, and my mother and he passed the theatre, and I said, Look, and he looked up at my name in lights, and stood there for five minutes, and Im going, I want to have lunch and get back for the matinee, and Im with my mother, and he still stood there and so, I went back to get him and he just said, I never thought that Id see my name in lights."
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"It seems to me a long way to go just to sit in a non-drinking, non-smoking environment on the offchance your name is called. … Its as if you are entered into a race you dont particularly want to run in. All the hoops you have to jump through on these occasions: its not my favourite occupation. Walking around in the spotlight having to be me is not something Im particularly comfortable with or desire. Id sooner pretend to be someone else."
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"Unlike writers or painters, we dont sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, How do I start? Where do I start? Were given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and theres a group of people all ready to make a film and its a marvelous life."
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