Quote by Derek Jacobi
I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotte

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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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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I would like to be as fit as Ive always been. Ive been blessed with good health, Ive been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. – 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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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isnt as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. – Carla Bley

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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. – Simon Newcomb

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