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Antony Sher
South African
Writer
Born:
Jun 14
,
1949
Acting
Actor
Good
Me
People
You
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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
History
You
Other
Spent
Has-Been
Shakespeare
Bear
Most
Learn
Doing
Been
His
Historical
Than
Anything
Resemblance
Thing
Basic
Career
Plays
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
Saying
Day
You
Overwhelming
Would
Exciting
Knight
Empire
Majesty
Like
Commander
Expect
Get
Just
Letter
Her
Appoint
British
British Empire
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
Gay
You
Courage
Minority
White
Constantly
South
Question
South African
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
African
Whether
Who
Groups
Belong
Jewish
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
Antony Sher
Gay
Three
White
Minorities
Always
Proud
South
South African
Very
African
Belonging
Jewish
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
Me
Hero
Physically
Never
Emotionally
Built
Least
Rewarding
Play
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
Love
Me
People
Energy
Shame
Makes
Mixture
Denying
Who
Waste
Why
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
Antony Sher
People
Writing
Painting
Drawing
Only
Obviously
Well
Acting
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
Truth
Good
Regret
Dangerous
Bad Things
Say
Good Material
Dangerous Thing
Bad
Never
Never Regret
True
Involved
Make
Comfortable
Material
Arts
Anyone
Happen
Really
Thing
Things
I don't believe in an afterlife.
Antony Sher
Believe
Afterlife
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
Antony Sher
South Africa
Came
South
Africa
Grandparents
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
Myself
Good
People
School
Liberate
Other
Kid
Those
Weak
Could
Boy
Were
Being
Acting
Found
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
Life
Attitude
Fate
Random
Down
Way
Some
Allen
Simply
Disastrous
Been
Going
Woody
Woody Allen
Jewish
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
You
Will
Become
Believe
Teenage
Say
Something
Could
Write
Self
Like
Gonna
If I Could
Letter
I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.
Antony Sher
Complete
Email
Even
I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.
Antony Sher
World
Believe
Benefit
No-One
Who
Therapy
Deeply
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