Quotes by Eddie Marsan

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

I have my career and my family, and that's it.

I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.