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Albert Finney (Actor)

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

— Albert Finney life

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.

— Albert Finney life

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

— Albert Finney love

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.

— Albert Finney thought

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

— Albert Finney truth

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.

— Albert Finney life

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

— Albert Finney art

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

— Albert Finney hope

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

— Albert Finney

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

— Albert Finney fun

I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.

— Albert Finney time

She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special.

— Albert Finney experience

She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.

— Albert Finney work

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

— Albert Finney time

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.

— Albert Finney light

No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was.

— Albert Finney work

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

— Albert Finney great

All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.

— Albert Finney read

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

— Albert Finney character

They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'

— Albert Finney joy

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.

— Albert Finney art

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.

— Albert Finney art

It was great to do and it's exciting to do those things. That's another thing, that one enjoys the game.

— Albert Finney joy

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

— Albert Finney change

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

— Albert Finney author

Its a marvellous life, a gregarious life that weve had. Were very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we dont sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, How do I start? Where do I start?

— Albert Finney life

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