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Antony Sher [1949-0] South African

Rank: 104
Writer, Actor

Sir Antony Sher, KBE is an English actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee.

Attitude, Courage

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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.	Attitude	101
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.		102
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.'		103
I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.		104
You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.		105
We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.		106
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.	Courage	107
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.		108
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.		109
What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.		110
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.		111
I have no cynicism at all.		112
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.		113
I love playing outsiders, I always do.		114
The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.		115
I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.		116
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.		117
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.		118
A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.		119
I don't believe in an afterlife.		120
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.		121
When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.		122
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.		123
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.		124
I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.		125
I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.		126
I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.		201

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