Ian Hart Quotes

• There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the internet, we now know this isn’t true.

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• There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true.

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• Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

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• Everyone should be good at what they do.

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• I don’t know how to construct a career that’ll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I’ll be competing with billions of actors who haven’t got false teeth, and who are 25.

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• I hate auditions – when I’m doing them, I can’t wait to get out the bleeding door.

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• I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work’s another. But if it doesn’t work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

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• I just want to be rich and famous.

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• I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

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• I’m belligerent rather than ambitious.

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• I’m not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

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• I’m still working, I’ve got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I’m lucky.

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• I’ve only used my own voice about four times on film.

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• It’s not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it’s a convention of drama. If you don’t get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

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• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

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• My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I’m way, way too old now, mate. That boat’s sailed.

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• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

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• That’s what I like about Neil Jordan’s films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

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• We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

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• Well, put it like this, if you’re not a kid, you’re a wizard.

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Ian Hart (22)

Birth:	8th October, 1964
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Ian Hart was born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He is an English stage, television and film actor best known for playing Quirinus Quirrell in the 2001 fantasy film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. His role in several films include: The Hours and Times, Backbeat, Nothing Personal, Land and Freedom, Hollow Reed, The Butcher Boy, Frogs for Snakes, This Year's Love, Born Romantic, Liam, Blind Flight, Finding Neverland, Breakfast on Pluto, A Boy Called Dad, and God's Own Country. His role in television include: The Hound of the Baskervilles(TV film), Eroica(TV film), The Virgin Queen (TV serial), Dirt(TV series), Five Daughters(TV series), The Man Who Crossed Hitler(TV film), The Driver (TV series), The Last Kingdom (TV series), and The Secret Agent (TV series).

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