Christopher Eccleston Quotes

• What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

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• We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

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• We all need a firm sense of identity.

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• Twelve years on sets watching directors, I’ve taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

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• Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn’t for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

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• The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

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• The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

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• The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

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• Television, although It’s in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don’t have voices.

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• Rather than disliking theatre, I’ve expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

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• On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

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• 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.

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• My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there’d be loads of women and drinking!

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• 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.

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

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• Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

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• It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

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

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• 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.

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• 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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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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