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Eddie Marsan Biography

Edward Maurice Charles Marsan (born 9 June 1968) is an English actor. He won the London Film Critics Circle Award and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Happy-Go-Lucky in 2008.

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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

Comedy, Faces, Know, Thinking, Used

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

Done, Ideas, Star, Stars, Time, Trying

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

Character, Human, Play, Thinking, Thinks

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

Class, Coming, Different, People, Race

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

Away, Boys, Dad, Man, Men, Moved

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

Boys, Character, Like, Play, Subject, Wish

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

Character, Fascinate, Gay, Interesting

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Bryan, Film, Singer, Singers, Wanted, Work

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

Actor, Actors, Ego, Liked, Needs, Respected

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

Like, Looked, Oxford, Stars, Thinking, Waugh

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Actors, Good, Make, Scripts, Special

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

Character, Jobs, Learn, Saw, Thinking

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

Acting, Character, Thinking, Thoughts

I think one of the London Film Festival strengths is that it's set in London but it's not about London. It's about the diversity of this city and it's about world cinema. And that's what London is - London is a place where its identity is always in a state of flux. So, this festival celebrates the way in which it is always changing. That's why London is a fascinating place and that's why the film festival is a fascinating film festival.

Diversity, Festival, Identity, Thinking, Way, World

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

Business, Job, Jobs, Show, Shows

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L. A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months. '

Approached, Pool, Seven, Thinking, Wife, Years

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

Agent, Drama, Party, Right, School, Succeed

I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

Character, Easier, Films, Hollywood Films, Men, Wider

As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

Advantage, Class, Extent, Leaving, People, School

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Asking Questions, Hard Work, Questions, Simple, Thing, Using

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