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Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.

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Antony Sher
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 14
Actor
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Film Actor
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Cape Town
South Africa
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As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
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Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
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If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.
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The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.
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A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.
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Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.
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When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
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I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
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I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
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I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
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I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.
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I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.
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I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
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Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
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I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.
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It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
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The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
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