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
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
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
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
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud