Stephen Rea Quotes

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.