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Victor Garber (40)

Birth:	16th March, 1949
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor, Singer

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Victor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is known for playing Jesus in Godspell, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.

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Births

• 1861 - Douglas Haig
• 1966 - Joichi Ito
• 1916 - Vilayat Inayat Khan
• 1861 - Jose Rizal
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• 1914 - Walter Brandon Thomas
• 1902 - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
• 1940 - Jerome Myers
• 1811 - Samuel Chase
• 1993 - William Golding

• Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one’s personality.

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• We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other’s company so much, and it was so cool.

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• What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you’re not happy doing it.

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• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

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• I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

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• Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they’ve given me more.

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• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

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• In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it’s very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don’t.

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• Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

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• It’s about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It’s about relationships, and the bottom line is, that’s why you care.

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• You can only do so much theatre.

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• I have no interest in directing. I’ve no talent for it.

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• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you’d know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

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• That’s why, when Alias came along, I knew I’d be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

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• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney’s fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

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• There is no way you’re going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would’ve killed 300,000.

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• I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I’m the same character, but I’m having more fun this season because I’m doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

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• I’m very serious about acting.

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• Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

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