More - John Leslie Quotes

(McCartney) came here about a year or two ago just as a visitor -- we take paying visitors -- and he had a look around,

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Indecent assault? What is that all about? Don't they know who I am? I would expect to face something a bit more criminal than indecent assault.

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Everything happens for a reason, although I'm not sure what that reason is yet.

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 Reason

You really have to keep up your nerve for the sake of the performance and other actors around you. There is a real camaraderie at the theatre which I enjoy as I have always been a team player.

John Leslie

 Performance

A painting... is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing.

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 Painting

I am an innocent man.

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 Man

When you work in television it's all about you, the camera is on you and the autocue is counting you in. The person I am on TV is the same person I am in real life, but acting means playing a completely different person.

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I usually end up having to owe a little money so why not pay at the last minute? It is hard to get things done early for me.

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 Money

I like to entertain. This role was the opportunity to try something different and see if I was any good at acting. I really believe in trying new things and pushing myself.

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 Opportunity

When everything becomes exploited-not for the information given but for the pure sake of advertising-then you think of these things in a very non-artistic way. But when the senses are let go, people become very creative. And the most creative thing people can do-non-artists I'll say-is get in touch with their feelings through sex.

John Leslie