Derek Jacobi

Quotations

  • “I think my parents were happy that I’d gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, ‘Well if acting doesn’t work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.’ Fortunately, the acting worked out.” -Derek Jacobi

    (click to view listing)

  • “Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people’s knowledge of those characters.” -Derek Jacobi

    (click to view listing)

  • “I would like to be as fit as I’ve always been. I’ve been blessed with good health, I’ve been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.” -Derek Jacobi

    (click to view listing)

  • “Ultimately it’s a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.” -Derek Jacobi

    (click to view listing)


View More Quotations – By Author.

View More Quotations – By Topic.

Home.