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Christopher Eccleston Quotes

Christopher Eccleston Biography

Nationality: English
Type: Actor

Born: February 16, 1964

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #1

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Help, Another, Times

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #2

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Around, Pretending, Class

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #3

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Before, Plays, Visceral

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #4

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Parents, Difficult, Birth

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #5

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Times, Step, Slightly

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #6

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Made, Two, Year

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #7

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Time , Great , School

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #8

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Good , Able, Protect

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #9

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Tell, Easy, Used

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #10

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Love , Universal, Belonging

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #11

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Film, Theatre, Actor

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #12

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Ever, Did, Worked

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #13

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Love , Thought, Gone

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #14

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Love , Work , Dead

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #15

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Dad , Mum, Exactly

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #16

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: School, Kid, Heard

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #17

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Help, Enjoyed, Extra

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #18

I had bags of energy as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Energy, Kid, Bags

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #19

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Play, Another, Dream

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #20

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Quite, Films, Stick

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #21

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Light, Idea, Used

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #22

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Care, Political, Country

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #23

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Special, Horror, Effects

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #24

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Learning , Dad , Someone

Christopher Eccleston Quotes #25

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

Christopher Eccleston

Tags: Experience , Character, Soul