Douglas Hodge Quotes

Douglas Hodge

Profession : Actor

Birth : February 25, 1960

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

Douglas Hodge

I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'

Douglas Hodge

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

Douglas Hodge

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

Douglas Hodge

In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.

Douglas Hodge

If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did it this way,' and, 'Jacobi did it this way.' There's a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did 'La Cage.' It didn't bother me one bit.

Douglas Hodge