My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he … - Tom Courtenay

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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider. . . abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Tom Courtenay

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

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I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.

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The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

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I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

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My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

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There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

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