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I keep saying that backwards ...

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

It was still quite late when ...

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

My now-wife - we got together...

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

When you're in a two-shot tog...

When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

I don't want to peak too earl...

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

I never did anything about my...

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

The old actors in the old day...

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

My occupation has been a grea...

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

I'm not religious. I love wha...

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

This is something particular ...

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

The old actors in the old days...

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, 'Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour.'

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

When you're in a two-shot toge...

When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

My occupation has been a great...

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

I'm not religious. I love what...

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, 'God doesn't have a leg to stand on.'

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

This is something particular t...

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

My now-wife - we got together ...

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

It was still quite late when I...

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

I keep saying that backwards i...

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, 'Stop, you're always in the past.' She sees me sort of daydreaming.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

My emotional investment starte...

My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

There just doesn't seem to be ...

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Tom Courtenay 17 quotes

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