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Derek Jacobi

"I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!"

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"I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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Amber Hurdle

"People will always choose more money over more sex."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."

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"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."

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Amber Hurdle

"Prospering just doesn't have to do with money."

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"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."

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Amber Hurdle

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

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"Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters."
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"They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed."
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"I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it."
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"I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that."
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"I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life."
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"Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it."
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"You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors."
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"One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant."
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"I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out."
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"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."
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