Christopher Eccleston Quotes

• 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!

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  Topics in Dream, Uncategorized

  Tags in dream, Play, Started

• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

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  Tags in Horror, Response, Effects

• 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.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Political, Response

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Light, Idea, Watching

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

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  Tags in Quite, Films

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

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  Tags in School, Various

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

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  Tags in Responsibility, Enjoyed

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

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  Tags in Come, Exactly

• I had bags of energy as a kid.

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  Tags in Energy, Kid

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

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  Tags in Dead, Seriously

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Standard, Useful

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

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  Tags in Worked, Know

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Actor, Theatre, Really

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

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  Tags in Universal, Think

• 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

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Character, Acting

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Great, Guess

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Protect, Believed

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Actually, Narrative

• Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

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  Tags in Before, Plays

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

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  Tags in Times, Slightly

Christopher Eccleston (37)

Birth:	16th February, 1964
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Christopher Eccleston was born in Langworthy, Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England. He is an English actor. He played the Ninth Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who and is currently on the American drama series The Leftovers on HBO. His film career has since taken off with a variety of high-profile roles, including the title role in Jude, Elizabeth, eXistenZ, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, 24 Hour Party People and 28 Days Later. He played a major role as the protagonist of the 2002 Revengers Tragedy, adapted from Thomas Middleton's play of the same name.

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