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Janet Suzman Biography

Film actress

Janet Suzman, born on February 9, 1939, is a British film actress with a rich experience in the British film industry. She is known for her outstanding performances in several classic films.

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“And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.”

Thinking Important Together Emphasis Family Together

Author:Janet Suzman

“My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.”

Mother Feet Agnostic Synagogue

Author:Janet Suzman

“You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.”

Bigs Mistake Learning From Mistakes

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Years Father Winning Events Remembered Atonement Annuals Decisiveness

Author:Janet Suzman

“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 Black White Possibility Fit Constitution Black And White Feeding Expertise

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Thinking Events Exciting Theatre Entertaining Affluence Affluent Luxurious

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Ideas Fighting Differences Events South Feds South Africa Veins Poisonous

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Giving Trying Actors Interesting Directors Performers Observers Small Things Really Interesting

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Should Certain Serious Mere Exit Entrances

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Thinking Way Next Attention This Life Right Way Judaism Exhilarating The Next One

Author:Janet Suzman

“OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.”

Ifs Knows Wells Looks House Forever Get Back Look At Me Judaism Nationality Stretching Sense Of Place

Author:Janet Suzman

“I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.”

Heart Kind Stills Happens Pain Form My Heart Racist Bigotry Behaviour

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Men Way Mean Character Acting Judgement Bad Man Judgemental

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Thinking Self Hands Might Too Much Jew Patriotism Bags Emphasis Carpet Nationality Sense Of Self

Author:Janet Suzman

“Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.”

Evil Democracy Air Land Breathe Oxygen Airports Johannesburg

Author:Janet Suzman

“I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.”

People Way Real Character Hands Blood Meetings Flesh Real Life Mystical Shaking Flesh And Blood

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Young Science Interest Our Lives Progress Son Spheres Young Sons

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

People Thinking Mean I Can Helping Bears Inequality Behaviour

Author:Janet Suzman

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1939
Known for: Film actress
Quotes: 18

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