Stephen Rea quotes

Stephen Rea is an acclaimed Irish actor known for his work in theatre, film, and television. Widely recognized for his collaborations with director Neil Jordan, he received an Academy Award nomination for his role in "The Crying Game." He continues to be celebrated for his versatile performances and deep portrayal of complex characters. Here are 23 of his quotes:

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares. (Stephen Rea)
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. View quote
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. View quote
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At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. View quote
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I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. View quote
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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. View quote
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My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do. View quote
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Acting is way of making yourself exist. (Stephen Rea)
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. View quote
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I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. View quote
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I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting. View quote
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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. View quote
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. View quote
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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. View quote
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At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I? View quote
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Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Stephen Rea)
I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without. View quote
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The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance. View quote
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Stephen Rea

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Occupation: Irish Actor
Born: October 31, 1946
Quotes count: 23