Adrian Lester Quotes

Adrian Lester

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 14, 1968

Love is love, even in its platonic, unromantic sense. Once you have that connection between two people, the only thing that gets in the way is circumstance, history, what each person has gone through.

Adrian Lester

I had a taste of the Hollywood experience doing 'Primary Colors.' Constant sunshine, your own chauffeur, drop-top BMW, the life of a 'major motion-picture star.' Then I came home and did no paid work for a year.

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The Undeclared War' is one of those series that points at something that should concern us all.

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In our multicultural society, it is inevitable that there will be a prime minister of colour at some point.

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I've always admired people who can shift and change, and pop up in areas you didn't think they could, and that's what I wanted to do.

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There was a moment at my wedding in 1997 when I got the bumps from all my male friends. We were in the garden and they grabbed me and threw me up and down in the air. It was a fantastic moment of complete irreverence.

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I don't believe in gods or doctrines. I have a more humanistic approach.

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I remember my eldest daughter pulling herself up on the sofa and using it as a balance point. I was calling to her across the living room. She looked at me and wanted to come to me and she looked at the floor and was scared she might not make it, but then she toddled quickly across and fell into my arms. It was amazing. The look on her face!

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I was an Englishman in New York playing a New Yorker... I had to be very careful with my accent.

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What marks me getting home is when I've completely unpacked.

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We had one TV in the house which sometimes people fought for control over. In those days, you watched one channel at a time and if you missed your programme, well, you missed it.

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I'm not a fan of the 'Geordie Shore,' 'Towie'-type stuff. I'd rather watch something else, or read a book.

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I loved 'Doomsday' because I got a chance to do a bit of action, a bit of running and jumping, kicking the bad guys around.

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Life's stories are important to tell because they remind us just how much strength ordinary people have when facing everyday, huge problems.

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There was more fuss made about Colin Powell being made general in America than there is about Othello being a general in the play.

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I think the best characters are people you're not sure of, that you keep on going: 'God, I hate that person,' but you can see why they do what they do. Overall, it's much more interesting to play someone who's not nice.

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If you stop to think how nice everything is even for a moment, you're already going backwards again. You have to keep walking. I'm constantly worrying about what I'm going to do next.

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Some directors will tell you what to do: stand here, walk over there, sit down. That is the most basic kind of approach, like directing traffic.

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The appeal of 'Hustle' has always been that the con artists are actually very moral - we've simply made the villains the heroes, and the good guys always come out on top.

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I've studied martial arts.

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