A biography for Antony Sherhasn’t been written yet.
“I love playing outsiders, I always do.”
“I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.”
“I don't believe in an afterlife.”
“I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.”
“It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.”
“The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.”
“What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.”
“I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.”
“I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.”
“I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.”
“I have no cynicism at all.”
“We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.”
“Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.”
“I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.”
“My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.”
“If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'”
“When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.”
“I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.”
“Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.”
“As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.”