Bertie Carvel Quotes

#1. People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

Bertie Carvel

#2. I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

Bertie Carvel

#3. I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.

Bertie Carvel

#4. It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

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#5. I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.

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#6. Acting is a mysterious process.

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#7. I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.

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#8. I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

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#9. Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.

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#10. Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

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#11. Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you're an arsehole, people don't want to work with you. You won't get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

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#12. I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.

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#13. The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

Bertie Carvel