There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn’t necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I’m a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t become an actor. If perhaps I’d stayed on at university and become an academic. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different – a different attitude or brushstroke. ‘Hamlet’ is like an entire gallery of old masters. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I’m not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher’s much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I always loved acting – though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn’t sure about doing it professionally. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
The nice thing about doing a weekly record is you’re rehearsing all week and working on getting the script better. Come Friday, when it’s time to actually film it, you feel like you’ve done most of the work! Rory Kinnear Read Quote
If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life. Rory Kinnear Read Quote