I’ve never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I’ve never been in a play that wasn’t interesting or worthwhile doing on some level. Stephen Rea Read Quote
I’ve been worked over by the English press because there’s an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife’s, and for that matter that my wife’s politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. Stephen Rea Read Quote
I didn’t want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I’m interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along. Stephen Rea Read Quote
I don’t feel ashamed of my wife’s political background, and I don’t think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are. Stephen Rea Read Quote
When you’re playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can’t. Your job is to do something else. And I’m not sure what it is, but I don’t think I’d be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years. Stephen Rea Read Quote
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. Stephen Rea Read Quote
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don’t know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. Stephen Rea Read Quote
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country. Stephen Rea Read Quote
