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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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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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 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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I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw How to be a Stand-up Comedian, it resonated. I realized Id rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry. – Wendy Liebman

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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher cant relate by talking to a group of friendly students, hell never be a competent teacher. – William Glasser

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It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the 50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! – Thom Gunn

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