Hugh Dancy Quotes

• You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don’t have to gird your loins, if that’s not quite the right phrase, every time you’re going to do a scene with that person.

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• When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn’t been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

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•  Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

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• There’s no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

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• The little song and dance number at the end – that’s me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I’ve never sung before and I’ve certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody’s asked me to try it again since.

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• Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I’m playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That’s really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

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• So to answer your question, I’m not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

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• No, I’m not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout.

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• Ireland. Great for the spirit – very bad for the body.

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• In reality, for me every role is completely different.

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• In my experience it’s not essential to get on with the person that you’re acting opposite.

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• I’ve not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I’m not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn’t quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

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• I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

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• I think for anybody reading the book they’re going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it’s quite hard to shake.

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• I think becoming an actor because it’s a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it’s plain sailing for hereon in, then you’re kidding yourself.

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• I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

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• But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

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• Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

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• Because I don’t really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

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• As always, there’s a couple of things in the pipeline – but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

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Hugh Dancy (20)

Birth:	19th June, 1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England. He is an English actor. He studied English under poet and playwright Francis Warner at St Peter's College, Oxford. His role in several films include: Black Hawk Down, Tempo, Ella Enchanted, Evening, Adam(nominated-Satellite Award for Best Actor), Martha Marcy May Marlene(nominated-Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast), and Hysteria. His role in television include: David Copperfield(TV film), Madame Bovary(TV film), Elizabeth I(nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor and Satellite Award for Best Actor), Hannibal(won-Golden Europe TV Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Saturn Award for Best Actor on TV, and Poppy Award for Best Actor in Drama Series. nominated-Saturn Award for Best Actor, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best TV Actor), Deadline Gallipoli(nominated-Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor), and The Path.

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