top of page
Quote_1.png
John Thaw

"I'm not an instinctive actor."

Standard 
 Customized
"I'm not an instinctive actor."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character."

Character

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him."

End

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"There is no more final end than death."

Death

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"I'm not an instinctive actor."

Actor

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on."

Murder

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."

Being

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."

Eye

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong."

Work

Quote_1.png
John Thaw
"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester."

Job

bottom of page