Albert Finney

Actor

1936-05-09 – 2019-02-07

Albert Finney was an English actor known for major roles in stage and film. His performances included Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express, and Erin Brockovich. He was widely respected for his versatility across classical and modern roles.

Quotes by Albert Finney

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.
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We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
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I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.
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We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.
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To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
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There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
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