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I was very lucky. I was an only child, but I was very lucky in that their response to that was `If that's what you want to do, do it.' Although it was no part of their life, particularly classical theater--Shakespeare and all that--not in their world at all, they supported me completely. Sir Derek Jacobi 1988 |
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I think they were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, `Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out. I was very fortunate that my parents also became my friends. We all adored each other. They were incredibly supportive. Shakespeare was somebody they'd heard of vaguely. It was a million miles from their experience. One of the great joys of my life . . . was that they became hooked on the theater. They'd come to see me, but also went to things I wasn't in." Sir Derek Jacobi 1998 |
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I keep trying to tell
myself that I ought to be a commercial actor and get a really good film or
something, but in the end I always find myself back at the Old Vic in the
classics. At long last I am
beginning to get the message—that is what I am supposed to be doing, I think. Sir Derek Jacobi 1977 |
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My especial friend in the company was Derek Jacobi, one of it's founding members, having played Laertes in in the inaugural production of Hamlet. A former Youth Theatre Player, he and I had first met briefly backstage at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge, the scene of his student triumphs. Blond and friendly, he was then the star at the Birmingham Rep. ...Derek was a delightful companion- witty, warm and wise, as might be expected from someone raised in a close, loving family in the unpretentious East side of London....obviously marked for greatness. Michael York 1991
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