Quotes of Albert Finney - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ No, no, I go where the work is, wherever it is. I'll go, I mean, if I select it, but I don't try and ration it out or balance it at all. ”

- Albert Finney

“ 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

“ I don't really look back at all. When I've made a film, I've made it. They kind of go out into the world and they're on their own really. ”

- Albert Finney

“ I don't really look back at all. When I've made a film, I've made it. They kind of go out into the world and they're on their own really. ”

- Albert Finney

“ 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

“ I don't plan on digging that stuff up that I've kept down with my feet. Why would I want to dig it all up and examine it like an archaeologist? ”

- Albert Finney

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

- Albert Finney

“ 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

“ 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

“ I don't plan on digging that stuff up that I've kept down with my feet. Why would I want to dig it all up and examine it like an archaeologist? ”

- Albert Finney

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ I don't really look back at all. When I've made a film, I've made it. They kind of go out into the world and they're on their own really. ”

- Albert Finney

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Albert Finney

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

- Albert Finney

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Albert Finney

“ My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama. ”

- Albert Finney

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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
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