Jamie Sives quotes

“I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.”
-- Jamie Sives

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“I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.”
-- Jamie Sives

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“I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.”
-- Jamie Sives

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“Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Miller has died. Or you can come back from a job on the Isle of Man to be told by your agent you're going straight out to South Africa on another shoot. There's not even any time to wash your pants.”
-- Jamie Sives

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“I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.”
-- Jamie Sives

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“To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.”
-- Jamie Sives

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“I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.”
-- Jamie Sives

Source : "On the verge" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2013.

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“The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.”
-- Jamie Sives

Source : "On the verge" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003.

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“I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.”
-- Jamie Sives

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“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”

“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”

“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”

“I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone,”

“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”

“I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.”

“She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.”

“One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.”

“The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.”

“I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way”

Source : Adrian Mitchell (1997). “Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984”, Bloodaxe Books Limited