Jeremy Northam Quotes

• Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn’t done many movies, and of going on for an interview.

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• There’s so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

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• The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

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• The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

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• Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It’s a paradox that’s at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

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• People will say that it’s some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I’d want to have the child for the child’s sake, if that makes sense.

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• Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there’s a certain toughness about it.

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• My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn’t really talk about it. I know that it’s there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

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• It’s taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That’s a job for the people who lived through it.

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• I’ve never had a huge circle of friends. I can’t spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can’t do that with everyone.

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• I’ve never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

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• I’m just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

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• I’d always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

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• I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don’t readily advertise themselves unless they’re not living in Moscow, and even then. I’m sure I’ve met some without realizing it.

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• I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

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• I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

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• I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let’s go!

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• I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that’s somehow there’s always a journey to go on. There’s always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

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• I don’t have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it’s a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn’t you, but the part.

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• I don’t consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I’d be 52 by the time it was 10. I’m not sure I’d have the energy, and I find that quite scary.

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Birth:	1st December, 1961
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Jeremy Philip Northam was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He is an English actor. He earned a BA degree in English from Bedford College, University of London in 1984. He married Canadian make-up artist Liz Moro in April 2005, though they later divorced. His role in several films include: Soft Top Hard Shoulder, Emma, Mimic, Amistad, Happy, Texas, An Ideal Husband, The Winslow Boy, The Golden Bowl, Enigma, Gosford Park (Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture, and Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble), Cypher, The Singing Detective, The Invasion, Dean Spanley, Creation, Eye in the Sky, and Our Kind of Traitor. His role in television include: Wish Me Luck (TV series), A Village Affair (TV film), Martin and Lewis (TV film), The Tudors (TV series), Miami Medical (Medical drama), White Heat (TV series), and The Crown (TV series).

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