Quote by Derek Jacobi
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working cap

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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Ultimately its a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. – Derek Jacobi

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Ellis Peterss historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to peoples knowledge of those characters. – Derek Jacobi

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Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination. – Christina Ricci

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. – Edgar Allan Poe

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On Into The Wild I spent months risking my life and on Speed Racer I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. – Emile Hirsch

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. – Edward Hopper

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