58 Quotes by Derek Jacobi

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous – especially when you were working late at night.

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.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We’re switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we’re in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one’s lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?