David Soul Quotes

• Once in a while I’ll get moved to do some exercise. It’s something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I’m OK.

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• I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

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• Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

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• To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

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• The most important thing is story-telling. It’s as singular and old-fashioned as that.

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• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

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• People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

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• Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

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• One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there’s the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

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• Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

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• My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

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• Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

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• It’s only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

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• It’s important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

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• If these theatres didn’t exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

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• I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could… I wasn’t happy, but I wasn’t unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

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• I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I’d already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

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• I was born into a family of preachers.

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• I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

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• I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

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David Soul (23)

Birth:	28th August, 1943
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Actor, Singer

About

David Soul is an American-British actor and singer, best known for his role as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the television programme Starsky and Hutch. He became a British citizen in 2004.

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