Quote by Derek Jacobi
Ellis Peterss historical detail is very accurate and very minute,

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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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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I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, Well if acting doesnt work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something. Fortunately, the acting worked out. – Derek Jacobi

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