I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live. Eddie Redmayne More Quotes by Eddie Redmayne More Quotes From Eddie Redmayne Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings. Eddie Redmayne earth wings needs Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800. Eddie Redmayne movie voice hate The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder! Eddie Redmayne messing-up work-harder hard-work I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop. Eddie Redmayne talking people looks The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right. Eddie Redmayne different impossible feelings I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard. Eddie Redmayne self sleep facts I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't. Eddie Redmayne nice names memories As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for Robert De Niro there's Al Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro. Eddie Redmayne scrutiny mountain actors I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two. Eddie Redmayne potters two years Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom. Eddie Redmayne boredom attention years You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed. Eddie Redmayne versus knows feels Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour. Eddie Redmayne always-trying people moving I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handing over that fear to the director, who has to make sense of all those options! Eddie Redmayne doubt directors ideas Tequila is my salmon. Eddie Redmayne tequila salmon I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot. Eddie Redmayne feet men hands They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places. Eddie Redmayne film-set film political I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again. Eddie Redmayne holiday summer people I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it. Eddie Redmayne roots jobs people I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious. Eddie Redmayne fashion self ideas I love the variety of films. In theater, you go into a room and the director runs the room, so you all work to his or her method. On film, if an actor or an actress is in for a day or two, the director has to get out of that actor what they need, so they have to change and adapt to that actor's technique. Eddie Redmayne technique running two
