Quotes by Tom Courtenay - Page 1

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Late
Married
Stills
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I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Stardom
Meant
Me Never Anything
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There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Aspiration
Seems
Anymore
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The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Absurd
Interesting
Long
Stars
Film Business
Proper
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This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Actors
Film
Play
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I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Daydreaming
Past
Wife
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I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Finished
Late
Too Late
Want
Worry
Peak
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I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Legs
Religious
Writing
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My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Occupation
Selfish
Struggle
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My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Past
Wife
Years
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The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Boys
Long
Play
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My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Men
Drama
Emotional
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When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.
Tom Courtenay / Actor
Self
Talking
Two
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