Steven Berkoff Quotes

Steven Berkoff
English Actor
Born: Aug 3, 1937
Director Good Me People Think You
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. Steven Berkoff
Great Director Run Administrator House Opera Opera House
British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie. Steven Berkoff
Eyes Culture Lie Mirror Those Inside Look Brain Itself Behind Where Want Loves Deep Deep Inside Image British Nightmares
The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life. Steven Berkoff
Life Love You Humanity Others Vital Part Most Deny Love You Your
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being. Steven Berkoff
You Important Think State Wear London Nobody Well-Being Comments Your
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters. Steven Berkoff
Garbage Generally Mainstream Look Subsidized Theaters
We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality. Steven Berkoff
Power Find Something More More Power Than Often Far Actuality Symbol
Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague. Steven Berkoff
Facebook Digital Twitter Horrible Facebook And Twitter Like Plague
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well. Steven Berkoff
History Will Anti-Semitism Gone Jews Our Some Gene Never Well Because Within Always Very Buried Convenient Prejudice Deep Original Even Away
I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film. Steven Berkoff
Time Complicated Bad Bad Guys Guys My Time Delightful Almost Most Lot Role Interesting Movies Villain Film Played Playing
Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie. Steven Berkoff
Long Seen Everyone Bad Bad Guy Guy Remembers Movie After
I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre. Steven Berkoff
Heart Theatre Lie Will Enjoy Always Being Movies
You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies. Steven Berkoff
You Man Director Money Snobbery Just Be Machine Insane About He Performance Like Stunts May Just Movies Might Much Producer Notice Your Cog Treated
Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves. Steven Berkoff
You Robot Become Films Mindless Has-Been About Rather Most Talking Without Robots Making Been Surrogate Left Ironically American Human Just Which Realising Human Element Themselves Element Now
A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant. Steven Berkoff
Too Much Whatever Too Bit Those Would Would-Be More Knighthood Much Elegant
I like evil people. Steven Berkoff
People Evil Like
Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay. Steven Berkoff
You Technology Devil Pay More Higher Price
After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner. Steven Berkoff
Sometimes Mother Cause Father Partner Despair Neglected Would Never Almost Brain Tattooed Being After Poor Hardship Watching
My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the age of seven, I was reading 100 books a year. Steven Berkoff
Education Me Library Age Mother Reading Year Took Seven Books Once Once A Week Responsible Entirely Week Almost She Cultural
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station. Steven Berkoff
War Time Me World Parents Sister Every Nights Beneath Station East Would London Point Take Road Underground Shelter Blitz Off End Grab Flat Us Each Lived Each Time Second Every Night Night World War Second World War
My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again. Steven Berkoff
Day Memory School Mother Alien First Strangers Distress Would See Seeing Never Part Primary Primary School Felt Being Again Room Full Her Earliest
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being. Steven Berkoff
Inspire Impossible Favourite Shakespeare Since Parts Being Different Different Parts Your Many Rouse Plays
Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome. Steven Berkoff
Sometimes Awesome Every Pleasant Melting Melting Pot Angeles Pot Arid Hot Dropped Weird Picturesque Los Los Angeles Mixture Banal Influence Plain Europe
I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and ally. He seemed to possess no airs or attitudes, neuroses, or predilection towards tantrums. Steven Berkoff
Nature You Benign Possess Seemed Neuroses Had He Ally Towards Attitudes Liked Himself Kubrick Tantrums Friend Offered Warm Stanley Stanley Kubrick Start
I'd like to be remembered with affection, with regard, and with just a smallest amount of admiration - that here's a man who walked against the tide. Steven Berkoff
Man Affection Admiration Remembered Smallest Like Tide Walked Just Regard Against Who Amount Here
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in. Steven Berkoff
You Theatre Church Believe Pulpit Priest Want Your
My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front. Steven Berkoff
First Put Name First Name Steven Off Front Middle Which Used Leslie

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