Brian Cox
Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBEis a Scottish actor who works with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He is also best known for appearing in The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, X2, Braveheart, Rushmore, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Troy and Doctor Who. He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in the 1986 feature film Manhunter...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 June 1946
CityDundee, Scotland
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People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.
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My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.
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If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.
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I was very inspired by people like Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. I just thought, if they could do it, I could do it.
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Dell is a supply chain driven, keep it simple, keep it high volume supplier and anything else doesn't fit their business. Once you get into a more consultative sell it really doesn't fit their business model.
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It's always different working with a different director because he brings his own thing to it. He brings his own discipline.
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The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
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I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.
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I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
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I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.
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Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
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For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'
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I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.