Quote by Derek Jacobi
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you re

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

Other quotes by Derek Jacobi

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

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote

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

Category:
teacher
Read Quote

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

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

Category:
Knowledge

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year. – Walt Disney

Category:
Knowledge

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. – Alban Berg

Category:
Knowledge

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

I know thats a secret, for its whispered everywhere. – William Congreve

Category:
Secrets

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. – Ancient Proverb

Category:
Attitude

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Writing

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. – George Raveling

Category:
Homecoming