55 Quotes by Steven Berkoff

I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.

I may be 80, but I intend to keep acting until the day I die. Instead of slowing down, I've discovered my second wind.

You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.

I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

I like evil people.

After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner.

My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again.

It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.