Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi, (; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and stage director.

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He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Tags: Time, Business, Happy

Derek Jacobi

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Tags: God, Believe, Him

Derek Jacobi

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.

Tags: Good, Great, Blessed

Derek Jacobi

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Tags: Live, Working, Actor

Derek Jacobi

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Tags: Good, Sense, Lives

Derek Jacobi

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Tags: Great, Best, Game

Derek Jacobi