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Antony Sher Biography

Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is an English actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood’s play Mahler's Conversion, and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles.

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I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Love, Outsiders, Playing

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

Africa, Came, Grandparent, Lithuania, South

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

Gay, White, Three, Proud, African

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

Actors, Introverted, People, Quite

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.

African, Constantly, Courage, Gay, White

Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

Party, Silly, Opposites, Written, Tell

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. '

Teenage, Believe, Writing, Become

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

Language, Feels, I Can, Power, Trust

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally. . . And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

Built, Hero, Play, Rewarding

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Darkness, Darkness Inside, Quite

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Acting, Disguise, Drew, Firsts, Place

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.

Struggle, Book, Writing, Easy, Write

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.

Career, Careers, Historical, Play, Resemblance Is, Shakespeare

Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.

Reading, Dark, Reflection, Shakespeare, Room

I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

Complete, Email, I Can, Technophobe

Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.

Arms, Hierarchy, Hug, Letting Go, Men, Trev

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.

Honest, Life Is, Thing, Years

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

Act, Actors, Death, Good, Pain, Panic

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.

School, Kids, Boys, Kid, Acting

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

Acting, Careers, Mystery, Whole

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