Eddie Marsan Quotes

I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

I've always loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty.

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.

You have to believe in yourself.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.