Brian Cox
Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBEis a Scottish actor who works with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He is also best known for appearing in The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, X2, Braveheart, Rushmore, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Troy and Doctor Who. He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in the 1986 feature film Manhunter...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 June 1946
CityDundee, Scotland
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You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.
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When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.
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The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!
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We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
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It's always different working with a different director because he brings his own thing to it. He brings his own discipline.
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The (Justin) Upton kid that they signed, their first-round draft pick last year, he is one of those guys. He can do things that physically we're not used to seeing a lot of baseball players do.
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As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
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I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.
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I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed.
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There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
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I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.