Author Profile
Antony Sher
1949 • South African • Writer
27
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Collected Meditations
Showing 27 quotesI believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.— Antony Sher
If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'— Antony Sher
I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.— Antony Sher
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.— Antony Sher
I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.— Antony Sher
When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.— Antony Sher
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.— Antony Sher
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.— Antony Sher
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.— Antony Sher