Cyril Cusack Quotes

• I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

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• Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

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• I am a nationalist… my native soil is the theatre.

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• I am basically a religious man.

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• I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

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• If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

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• I was rather a fat little boy.

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• I love the theatre and theatre people.

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• In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

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• One’s performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

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• Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

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• Simple stories… emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

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• The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

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• The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

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• Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

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• They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

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• To maintain one’s individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

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Cyril Cusack (17)

Birth:	26th November, 1910
Death:	7th October, 1993
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Actor

About

Cyril James Cusack was an Irish actor, who appeared in numerous films and television productions in a career lasting more than 70 years.Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. His mother, Alice Violet , was an English Cockney actress and chorus girl, and his father, James Walter Cusack, was Irish and a sergeant in the Natal mounted police. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack was educated in Newbridge College, Newbridge, County Kildare and University College Dublin.

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