The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I … - Eddie Marsan

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I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Eddie Marsan

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.

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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 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

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

Kids, Relish, Responsibility, Wife, Worry

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.

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

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