Quotes by Paddy Considine

Paddy Considine

All you’ve got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it’s good acting.

Blow

People

Thinking

At the end of the day, my life isnt about other peoples work. Ive got to stop giving stuff away. Ive got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. Ive got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

Giving

Needs

The End Of The Day

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you’re out of view.

Character

Directors

Views

I can’t afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I’ve learnt after all these years is that I don’t fit in. It’s very difficult to be at the mercy of other people’s whims and visions.

People

Vision

Years

I could never sit down and say: I’m going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You’ve just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can’t fail.

Art

People

Soul

I don’t want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn’t get paid for it, I wouldn’t act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You’re a very small cog in a big machine.

Cogs

Jobs

People

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

Laughing

People

Reality

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I’ve always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

Children

Feelings

Wife

I think it’s a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

Art

People

Thinking

I watched ‘Rocky’ and ‘Raging Bull’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

Bulls

Men

Raging Bull

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Giving

Giving Up

Gone

Hate

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Ideas

Jobs

Landscape

Laughing

May

Men

Needs

Past

People

Political

Poor

Raging Bull

Reality

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Small Steps

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Stuff

The End Of The Day

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Too Much

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Quotes by Paddy Considine

Paddy Considine

All you’ve got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it’s good acting.

At the end of the day, my life isnt about other peoples work. Ive got to stop giving stuff away. Ive got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. Ive got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you’re out of view.

I can’t afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I’ve learnt after all these years is that I don’t fit in. It’s very difficult to be at the mercy of other people’s whims and visions.

I could never sit down and say: I’m going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You’ve just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can’t fail.

I don’t want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn’t get paid for it, I wouldn’t act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You’re a very small cog in a big machine.

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I’ve always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

I think it’s a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

I watched ‘Rocky’ and ‘Raging Bull’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

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