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I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true. -- Antony Sher
The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well. -- Antony Sher
I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself. -- Antony Sher
I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it. -- Antony Sher
Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind. -- Antony Sher
Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: 'What about those reviews then?'
'I don't read them.'
'Don't read them? You wrote them didn't you? -- Antony Sher
When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy. -- Antony Sher
I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email. -- Antony Sher
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. -- Antony Sher
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death. -- Antony Sher
[Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are. -- Antony Sher
I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now. -- Antony Sher
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African. -- Antony Sher
You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. -- Antony Sher
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are. -- Antony Sher
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. -- Antony Sher
What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise. -- Antony Sher
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another. -- Antony Sher
Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party. -- Antony Sher
We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness. -- Antony Sher
I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are. -- Antony Sher
The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me. -- Antony Sher
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate. -- Antony Sher
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history. -- Antony Sher
A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people. -- Antony Sher
I love playing outsiders, I always do. -- Antony Sher
I have no cynicism at all. -- Antony Sher
I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally ... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me. -- Antony Sher
I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more. -- Antony Sher
I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies. -- Antony Sher
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. -- Antony Sher
I don't believe in an afterlife. -- Antony Sher
If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.' -- Antony Sher
Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions. -- Antony Sher