27 Quotes by Julian Sands

If you watch Olivier’s interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least – especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: ‘Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?’ and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

I’m more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I’m about.

I subscribe to that school of thespian – to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the ’30s and ’40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?

I just love doing broader work – I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it’s nice to make people laugh sometimes.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it’s as if one has made oneself unavailable.

Actors have a magic gene within them – I think they’re the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds – and it’s all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Acting has been gentrified. It’s become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.