Alfred Molina Quotes:
- "My father thought acting was a stupid idea, but my mum was very supportive. My dad was a waiter and I left the job he had found me, to act for half the money, so he had a point."
- "The worst thing an actor can do is enter a project without respect for the material. You can't go in with, "This is a pile of poop but I have nothing better to do right now." That's disaster!"
- "When I was younger I was always big, I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman. I was always a bit weird-looking and I carried myself in a weird way, so when I was at drama school I was never considered for the romantic parts."
- On being asked to do a role like Doc Ock: "A journalist once said to me, 'Over your long career, you've studiously avoided this kind of popular film.' And I said, 'No I haven't. They've just never asked me before. I'd do a film like this at the drop of a hat.'"
- On being typecast: "I think people have a sense that I'm good for the occasional villain. If this was my first job out of drama school, that would be a very different prospect. But after 30 years of acting and something like 40 movies under my belt?.if I go to my grave being the guy who played Doc Ock, that's fine with me."
- On doing accents: "Yeah, I've given a few good Jews. I've given a few good Arabs, too. Good Jew, good Arab, good European, good South American, I give good Cuban. Generally speaking I give good foreign. I don't give good English really. I was always like the foreign geezer. Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me."
- On his life: "At the risk of sounding smug, I love my life."
- On his role as Tevye: "The fact that others have played a part doesn't take away anything for me. For the time that I occupy this little space in the theatrical universe, I am Tevye and Tevye is me."
- On losing weight from FRIDA: "I haven't lost it yet, quite. I'm still working on it. It took two weeks to put on it and it's taken me two years to lose it."
- On scenes that didn't make Spider-Man 2: "My nude scene, yeah, in that scene I had five tentacles. We lost a nude scene."
- On the daily routine life of a stage actor: "I'm having a lovely time. You try to live as normal a life as you can -- I pick up the dry cleaning, and I've got to do a little shopping, clean up the apartment if it's a bit untidy. But ultimately, it's those three hours at the end. It's like going down a tunnel. But that's the nature of the job, you know."
- On the differences between his small and larger movie roles: "Well, it's a bit like?.if you love fruit, it's a bit like choosing between a really delicious mango and a really fantastic pear. You can enjoy both of them equally."
- On the realism of acting: "It always makes me smile when I hear actors say, 'It didn't feel real.' Well, there is nothing about acting that is real. We all would be psychotic. In movies, I've killed people, I've raped people, I've been killed and I've been raped. It is ridiculous to use words like real. It's all make-believe. We are telling stories. I think Tony Hopkins described acting as a legitimate way to behave badly."
- On the roles he's cast in: "The correlation seems to be, the bigger the movie, the more I'm the bad guy. The smaller the film, I become nicer."
- On what people thought of him playing Ock: "Lot of geeks turn up with photographs and stuff, saying things like, 'You don't look like Doc Ock!' And I say, 'Well, I don't look like your Doc Ock, but I look like my Doc Ock, and I'm playing the part!'"
Alfred Molina Awards:
- Royal Television Society, UK: RTS Television Award - Best Actor - Male, The Accountant (1990)
- Imagen Foundation Awards: Best Actor - Film, FRIDA (2003)
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