Trevor Slattery Quotes

I’m gonna offer the choice: do you want an empty life, or a meaningful death?[trailer]

Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher.

Calm down, mate. I’m not dead, it’s just a performance. Now get down here and play along.[to Morris]

Why do you look familiar?[Eric WIlliams]Trevor Slattery. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Did bits and bobs in the West End.[Trevor Slattery]Weren’t you The Mandarin?[Eric WIlliams]Then I took a role, posing as an international terrorist to pay my drug and prostitution debts.[Trevor Slattery]

When we share our pain, our grief, our joy, the audience, less alone in theirs. We’re all less alone.

There’s a tradition in the theater of handing down your prop to the next generation. This particular skull’s had quite the journey. It was used by David Garrick when he played Hamlet. He gave it to Kean, who passed it to Irving, who passed it to Burton, who left it in a bar, and I nicked it.

The work of an actor isn’t getting jobs. Your work is acting. You can always find a way to act.[to Simon]

The real you isn’t your condition. The real you… It’s the sum of everything you’ve experienced. The loss, the joy. Sadness, heartbreak. Losing someone you love so much. Wanting something so badly, you could burst. Hurting someone you care about. Being hurt by those you love. That’s your life. That’s who you are.

One pair of shoes. That’s weird.[Simon Williams]How so?[Trevor Slattery]If it’s a shoes-off house, there’d be a whole line of shoes. If it’s a shoes-on house, there’d be none. But one pair of shoes… What does that mean?[Simon Williams]Someone forgot their shoes.[Trevor Slattery]

Nature, that’s our job. To understand the world around us and ourselves within it. The real work isn’t digging for subtext or parsing a writer’s intent. The real work is living.[about acting]

It’s a wonderful thing, not thinking too much. Served me well most of my life.

Acting isn’t a job. It’s a calling. It’s the single most consequential thing anyone could ever do with their life.