Albert Finney Quotes

• To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory’s vault and mix in a sad memory from one’s own life.

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• I mean, I did a film, a musical of ‘Scrooge’, in ’70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don’t have to turn up at all.
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• I think that one of Tim’s great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you’re doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don’t feel that it’s important.

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• I think that I’m busy in the present, and I don’t want to go back. Well, there’s been an unauthorized biography, and you can’t stop them. It didn’t worry me.

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• I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

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• I haven’t seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

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• I don’t think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we’re someone else. I don’t tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

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• I don’t enter, I’m entered. It’s up to someone else. It’s up to them.

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• He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn’t give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

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• All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, ‘No, well, it needs more. You’ve got to do this, Albert. You’ve got to do that, Jessica.’ It didn’t feel like that at all.

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Albert Finney (30)

Birth:	9th May, 1936
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Albert Finney is an English actor. He achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, and has maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones 1963, Murder on the Orient Express 1974, The Dresser 1983, and Under the Volcano 1984 and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich 2000.

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