Zitat des Tages von Stephen Rea:
I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.
My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.
You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
