Christopher Eccleston Quotes

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
Christopher Eccleston

Experience, Character, Soul

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
Christopher Eccleston

Learning, Dad, Someone

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
Christopher Eccleston

Special, Horror, Effects

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
Christopher Eccleston

Care, Political, Country

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.
Christopher Eccleston

Light, Idea, Used

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.
Christopher Eccleston

Quite, Films, Stick

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
Christopher Eccleston

Play, Another, Dream

I had bags of energy as a kid.
Christopher Eccleston

Energy, Kid, Bags

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
Christopher Eccleston

Help, Enjoyed, Extra

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
Christopher Eccleston

School, Kid, Heard

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
Christopher Eccleston

Dad, Mum, Exactly

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.
Christopher Eccleston

Love, Work, Dead

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
Christopher Eccleston

Love, Thought, Gone

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
Christopher Eccleston

Worked, Interior, Interiors

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
Christopher Eccleston

Film, Theatre, Actor

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
Christopher Eccleston

Love, Universal, Belonging

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
Christopher Eccleston

Tell, Easy, Used

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
Christopher Eccleston

Good, Able, Protect

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
Christopher Eccleston

Time, Great, School

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
Christopher Eccleston

Made, Two, Year

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.
Christopher Eccleston

Times, Step, Slightly

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
Christopher Eccleston

Parents, Difficult, Birth

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
Christopher Eccleston

Before, Plays, Visceral

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
Christopher Eccleston

Around, Pretending, Class

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
Christopher Eccleston

Help, Another, Times

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: February 16, 1964

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