I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don’t go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn’t know anything until I went to Oxford. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It’s a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
When you’re 15, you’re not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting – not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
When I was 15, I was asked to do ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It’s obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It’s a big leading part, and I hadn’t really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don’t share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
It’s quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
In some ways, I’ve been left with this great ‘idolic’ image of my father, but there’s a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
