Derek Jacobi Quotes

Derek Jacobi — British Actor born on October 22, 1938,

Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE is an English actor and stage director... (wikipedia)

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.

Derek Jacobi Quotes

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