Albert Finney Quotes

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney

Truth, Someone, Lie

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.
Albert Finney

Two, Film, Seen

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
Albert Finney

Hope, Mean, Done

All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.
Albert Finney

Through, Read, Needs

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Albert Finney

Give, After, Old

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.
Albert Finney

Someone, Else, Enter

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.
Albert Finney

Fun, Playing, Accents

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.
Albert Finney

Busy, Worry, Stop

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.
Albert Finney

Great, Important, Quite

I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
Albert Finney

Time, Long, Drink

I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.
Albert Finney

War, Another, Talk

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.
Albert Finney

Mind, Same, Youth

It was great to do and it's exciting to do those things. That's another thing, that one enjoys the game.
Albert Finney

Great, Game, Another

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
Albert Finney

Life, Down, Start

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
Albert Finney

Great, Dad, Dry

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.
Albert Finney

Nice, Two, Girlfriend

No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was.
Albert Finney

She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.
Albert Finney

Work, Good, Great

She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special.
Albert Finney

Best, Experience, Special

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.
Albert Finney

Work, Time, Good

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
Albert Finney

Yourself, Light, Here

They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'
Albert Finney

Best, Mean, Enjoy

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
Albert Finney

Life, Sad, Character

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.
Albert Finney

Through, Before, Her

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
Albert Finney

Life, Group, Film

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Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: May 9, 1936

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