David Soul Quotes (29 Quotes)



    A job is a very healthy thing to do.

    I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

    Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

    If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.


    Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

    I think it's a cornerstone of the theater, but you have to see the play, you have to be there, you have to have the facts.

    At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.

    My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

    The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

    Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

    People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

    Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

    Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

    I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

    Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

    We all have to find some way to deal with stress or to confront it and find a way to counteract it and balance ourselves.

    I see my kids more often than ever, the six of them. The problems that used to be there, between myself and the first wives are gone. And what's happened over these years is that we've become friends. What a concept you know, become friends first, then get married. They all get on with each other too.

    I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

    One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

    It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

    I went to Mexico to study social and political history during that really charged period in Mexican history in the early sixties, that I found my path in a way. It was a time when students wanted to take control of their own country, not just in Mexico but also in Europe and the United States.

    Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

    I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

    It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

    I was born into a family of preachers.

    I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.


    To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.


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