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Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
- Samuel West
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#Morality
#Nature
#Revenge
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
- Samuel West
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The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
- Samuel West
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#Idea
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It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
- Samuel West
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#Circus
#Hard
#Run
#Something
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
- Samuel West
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#Day
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I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.
- Samuel West
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#Grow
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
- Samuel West
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Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
- Samuel West
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#Doing
#Process
#Together
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At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
- Samuel West
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#City
#Great
#Heart
#People
Most actors are socialists, aren't they?
- Samuel West
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#Socialists
We'll be back. I promise you that.
- Samuel West
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#Promise
#You
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
- Samuel West
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#Hope
#Live
#Professional
#Read
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.
- Samuel West
#Everything
#Life
#My Life
#People
#Say
I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
- Samuel West
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#Me
#Never
#Pillow
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Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
- Samuel West
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#Fish
#Independence
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