Top 29 Quotes by Stephen Rea

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.