Antony Sher
Antony Sher
Sir Antony Sher, KBEis an English actor of South African origin, he is a two time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four time nominee. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood’s play Mahler's Conversion, and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 June 1949
careers acting mystery
The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
skills car effort
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.
play careers resemblance-is
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.
commander exciting expect letter majesty
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.
obviously
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
email i-can
I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.
attitude fate way
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.
reading dark reflection
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.
silly party opposites
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.
school kids boys
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.
pain panic actors
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
darkness darkness-inside
We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.
people mixtures waste
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.
way fans reinventing
I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.