“It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the co...” — Derek Jacobi Quote

“It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!”

“It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.”

“You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.”

“I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.”

“Love is a given, hatred is acquired.”

“It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.”