103 Quotes by Eddie Marsan

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. 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.

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.