Janet Suzman
Janet Suzman
Dame Janet Suzman, DBEis a South African/British actress who enjoyed a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles, among others, on TV. In her first film, Nicholas and Alexandra, her performance as Empress Alexandra earned her several honours, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth9 February 1939
thinking exit serious
So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.
character mean men
I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
thinking self hands
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
science son progress
But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.
mean thinking people
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.
mother feet agnostic
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
black-and-white thinking constitution
But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.
thinking theatre events
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
fighting ideas differences
It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
giving interesting trying
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
thinking way next
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
father winning years
Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.
mistake learning-from-mistakes bigs
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
thinking together important
And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.