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Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves. - Steven Berkoff
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Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay. - Steven Berkoff
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With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate. - Steven Berkoff
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There's a lot of talk about people being abused on Twitter, women being savagely insulted and degraded. I think, 'Why get into that in the first place?' If I jump into a garbage bin, I can't complain that I've got rubbish all over me. - Steven Berkoff
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You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies. - Steven Berkoff
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Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well. - Steven Berkoff
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I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre. - Steven Berkoff
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British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie. - Steven Berkoff
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During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station. - Steven Berkoff
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Writing is an antidote for loneliness. - Steven Berkoff
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If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up - define and refine you. - Steven Berkoff
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We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality. - Steven Berkoff
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I'm very resistant to most forms of theater. - Steven Berkoff
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If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage. - Steven Berkoff
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When I wrote 'East,' I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it not only satisfying but releasing. It gave me an opportunity to play with language. We never played the characters like the yobs that they are, but rather in a slightly heightened way. - Steven Berkoff
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I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction. - Steven Berkoff
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. - Steven Berkoff
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When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst. - Steven Berkoff
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I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film. - Steven Berkoff
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies. - Steven Berkoff
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When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language. - Steven Berkoff
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