Quotes by Stephen Rea

About Stephen Rea:

Stephen Rea is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in high-profile films such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game. He has during later years had important roles in the Hugo Blick TV-series The Shadow Line and The Honourable Woman.
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I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

Stephen Rea

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Stephen Rea

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

Stephen Rea

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Stephen Rea

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

Stephen Rea

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

Stephen Rea

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

Stephen Rea

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.

Stephen Rea

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.

Stephen Rea

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

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.

Stephen Rea

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

Stephen Rea

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

Stephen Rea

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Stephen Rea

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.

Stephen Rea

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.

Stephen Rea

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.

Stephen Rea

When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be...

Stephen Rea

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.

Stephen Rea

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

Stephen Rea

Author Bio

  • NameStephen Rea
  • DescriptionIrish actor
  • BornOctober 31, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor