Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Philip Northamis an English actor. He has appeared in the films Gosford Park, Emma, Amistad, The Winslow Boy, Enigma, Martin and Lewis, amongst others. He played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 December 1961
jobs reading thinking
I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
jobs heart fiction
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of #storytelling.
life jobs taken
It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.
attitudes certain changed toughness
Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it.
knew pierce selecting
Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.
characters critical involved lives people sort
There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.
ambition awful life mainly personal
I've never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - I've done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States.
entirely hour huge miles million people spread thin truly
I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.
children kids people
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
nice jamaica islands
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
children scary energy
I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
drama might documentaries
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
children growing-up war
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
spy moscow realizing
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.