In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That’s like a lot of the movie work I’ve done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
The problem with motor neurone disease is they don’t know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they’re seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it’ll be diagnosed. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
I feel like J. K. Rowling’s world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there’s something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can’t really be like that. Because you never know what’s right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
I’ve never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
I’ve worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I’ll think, ‘Have you stopped learning?’ They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again. Eddie Redmayne Read Quote
