Antony Sher Quotes & Sayings

“I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.”

“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.'”

“We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.”

“I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.”

“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.”

“I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.”

“What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.”

“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.”

“I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.”

“You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.”