Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad’s old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn’t really push the envelope at home. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I’m not a snob… there’s room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don’t just have to be one kind of actor. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I’m glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, ‘Oh, he’ll just do the same as his dad.’ Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don’t know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law – I didn’t really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
I’d not really ever expected to play anything like ‘Hamlet.’ I hadn’t seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
If you’re working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children. Rory Kinnear Read Quote
