Top 28 Stephen Graham Quotes
#1. People in New York are surprised when I open my mouth.
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#2. There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.
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#3. College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.
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#4. When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
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#5. I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.
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#6. Don't let anybody ever tell you life's fair. Not as long as I'm in it.
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#7. There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.
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#8. I'm drawn to dramas that make people think. I want to make an impact.
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#9. I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.
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#11. There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.
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#12. Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.
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#13. I always try and keep a jacket from everything I do. I've still got my original coat from 'Snatch' and my jacket from 'This Is England'.
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#14. The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.
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#15. I'm more of a shirt, jeans and trainers man, and I'll never stop that.
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#16. I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.
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#17. No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were worshiping trees and eating each other, so when they talk, I listen.
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#18. I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock.
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#19. I've become very close with Tom Hardy. I love Tom to bits.
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#20. Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.
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#22. I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.
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#23. I like how TV used to be - 'Boys from the Blackstuff' and 'Play for Today', instead of 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'Celebrity Come Cook With Me' or whatever. I hate all that stuff.
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#24. If I get the walk of a character, that helps me find them. So I'm constantly looking at airports and train stations, registering walks.
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#25. As you sit on the hillside,
or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
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#27. I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.
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#28. I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.
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