Best 18 quotes of Stephen Rea on MyQuotes

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.