22 Ian Hart Quotes about work, famous, people, learn, think

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

Bookmark
come

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

Bookmark
allowed

Everyone should be good at what they do.

Bookmark
everyone

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

Bookmark
america

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

Bookmark
auditions

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

Bookmark
accept

I just want to be rich and famous.

Bookmark
famous

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

Bookmark
activity

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Bookmark
adept

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

Bookmark
ambitious

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

Bookmark
american

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

Bookmark
arms

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

Bookmark
film

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

Bookmark
convention

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

Bookmark
bald

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.