Albert Finney
Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor. Beginning in the theatre, Finney was especially successful in plays by William Shakespeare before he switched to films. He achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, his debut being The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, who had directed him in theatre plays various times before. He became a leading Free Cinema figure, and has maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), Tom Jones (1963), Scrooge (1970), Annie (1982), The Dresser (1983), Miller's Crossing (1990), Big Fish (2003), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and the James Bond film Skyfall (2012).
A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984); and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich (2000).
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Famous quotes by Albert Finney:
"To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life."
"My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry."
"It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'"
"I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun."
"She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents."
"You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather."
"Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing."
"You just feel comfortable with him, and he certainly makes sure that you're comfortable. He makes sure that you feel good and that you're happy with what you're doing."
"I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time."
"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important."
"I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that."
"I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth."
"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."
"We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life."
"My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama."
"All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all."
"Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too."
"When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy."
"I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them."
Albert Finney
ALBUMS
- Now That's What I Call Musicals released: 2012
- The Wall: Live in Berlin released: 2003
- The Magic of Motown released:
Now That's What I Call Musicals
Released 2012- We Will Rock You: We Will Rock You
- Mamma Mia: Dancing Queen
- Rocky Horror Picture Show: Time Warp
- Ghost: Unchained Melody
- Chicago: All That Jazz
- Grease: The Grease Mega-Mix
- Shrek: I'm a Believer
- Lion King: Circle of Life
- Aladdin: A Whole New World
- Wicked: Defying Gravity
- Billy Elliot: Electricity
- Moulin Rouge: Come What May
- Oliver: Consider Yourself
- Hairspray: You Can't Stop the Beat
- Dreamboats & Petticoats: Dreamboats & Petticoats
- Fame: Fame
- Mary Poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Annie: Tomorrow
- High School Musical: Breaking Free
- Evita: Another Suitcase in Another Hall
The Magic of Motown
- Stop! In the Name of Love
- This Old Heart of Mine
- ABC
- Love Machine
- Every Little Bit Hurts
- When You're Young and in Love
- The Night
- Rythym of the Night
- From Head to Toe
- Child of Love
- Put Yourself in My Place
- Festival Time
- The Day Will Come Between Sunday and Monday
- Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me
- Do You Love Me
- Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Those Other Men
- You Can't Turn Me Off (In the Middle of Turning Me On)
- It's a Shame
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