Rules of life of Viktor Sukhorukov

The famous Russian actor shares his thoughts on life with Esquire magazine.

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Source: esquire.ru

1. I HAVEN'T GIVED AN INTERVIEW FOR A LONG TIME, because I'm always a supporter of the occasion. And if there is no reason, then there is nothing to talk about.

I AM NOT ASHALED IN FRONT OF OTHERS, only in front of myself, and I have only one global shame - this is drunkenness. I drank a lot. But then there was no shame, but today I am ashamed, because I understand that I pissed off that part of my life, squandered it. At that time I was an animal - drunk, shitting, filthy, worthless and useless.

HOW DID I STOP DRINKING? I'm telling. I’m sitting in my room in Leningrad and suddenly a voice: “Tired?” - "Tired". “How are we going to live?” - "Don't know". “Do you want to start over?” - "Really want to". - "Well, go to bed." And I was already lying down, and a voice suddenly said: “But remember, Sukhorukov, it won’t get better, it won’t get easier. And loneliness will haunt you even after you start all over again. Ready?" I say ready. And fell asleep. And when I woke up, I handed over all the bottles, bought a sprat in a tomato, a box of pasta, sugar and began to clean the apartment - to wash the floor and walls.

2. FIGHTING WITH FAULTS IS ALWAYS INDIVIDUAL. The general remedy can only be for the flu.

LENINGRAD ACCEPTED ME BUT DID NOT LOVE ME. And how can you live without love? I lived there for 25 years, but it turns out that I did not live, but waited, was crushed by one past tense verb. I was waiting for some changes, I was waiting for meetings, I was waiting for love. But it was there that I established myself and left Sukhorukov from there.

TODAY I LIVE FOR THREE YEARS. I live so fast that I even brake my progress with my heels.

3. YES, I SAY THE WORD "EAT", and I have never been told that this is not allowed. And if they do, I'll turn around and leave. Did I offend you, or did I humiliate you? Only narrow-minded people pay such attention. An educated person will simply smile and, perhaps, say: “Wow, how interesting it sounds.”

I DRINK TEA FROM A SAUCER. I come and pour into a saucer.

I AM APOLITICAL. Because I don't know everything. Same as you.

4. I SHAVED BECAUSE I HAVE A BALDLE. As Balabanov shaved me, so since then I have been walking around the cinema with a shaved head. But many actors, having hair, still shave their heads - they are looking for charisma. That's just charisma is not in the bald head.

IN THE 1990S THEY SAID: GOD, AGAIN SUKHORUKOV! What did they find in him, freak freak? And if Sukhorukov is a hero, then such an ugly time. I was upset then, but now I'm proud of it. If I personify time, then I do not live in vain.

I HAVE A HUGE NUMBER OF PRIZES, I even specially ordered furniture so that these prizes would be visible. I dust them off and show them to everyone. Because every award, every plaque and every toy is the result of my deed, the recognition of my essence. What's there to laugh about? I'm not dusting the coffin, but the gifts.

5. I LOVE MY COTTAGE, MY GARDEN. I even go to Holland for seeds every spring, because there are very good seeds.

MY RELATIVES FREQUENTLY SAY TO ME: be quieter, less, calm down that you are wasting money. And this is how I live. Once there was only a curious moment: I thought, I will sit quietly and speak quietly. And then it seemed to me that I was not. I am not seen or heard when I am at rest.

6. I DO NOT SAY GIVE and I don't say sorry.

OLD AGE IS INEVITABLE, but I treat it like the fifth season. This is a period when a person goes deep into memories and can no longer create anything, because he has more experience than strength. This is your final frontier. The place from where you will not return back, only to death.

WHAT IS A CEMETERY? This is a communal apartment in which you move after death. But this does not mean that pots will rattle there or a piano will play. You are completely delusional about the piano. The piano is good. Don't want a crowbar on the head?

WE ARE ALL SPOTTED WITH YOUTH.

When I see people my age, I think they are older than me. Heavier, heavier. And I think: Am I the same?

7. NIGHT IS THE TIME OF MEMORIES, summing up. When you fall asleep, you either plan for the future or remember the past, but you don't live. Therefore, if you can’t sleep at night and you are tormented by all sorts of thoughts, I want to make you an offer: light yourself a cozy table lamp, start living. When I can't sleep, for example, I turn on the lamp, put the kettle on, eat and drink. A cookie, maybe, or sauerkraut, or a boiled egg, or even soup, after all. But the point is not even that I am eating at this moment, but that I continue to live.

I HAVE SUCH A PICTURE FROM CHILDHOOD. It was summer, a potato field, and suddenly it began to rain. My father took off his raincoat and held it like an umbrella. We ran home, and I shouted to him all the time: “Don’t run, I don’t have time!” And the rain gathered in huge puddles underfoot. I remember that at that time I was very tired and angry at my father, although I was very small, that he ran so fast and with such large steps that I had to take four steps instead of one father's. In general, a child's head does not hold plots. Children have only flashes of memory. No novels, no short stories. Only thumbnails and dots.

I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IF MY ALL GENERATION DIES, I have nothing to do here.

8. TEARS ARE EVEN IN ANIMALS. This is a sign of life, a sign of sensuality, a sign of perception of the world. So cry until you die. Cry, both men and women, because tears are not a sign of gender.

I have a BAD MOOD even in a crowd of people under fireworks on a holiday.

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ANY TALK, ESPECIALLY PUBLIC, SHOULD BE USEFUL. It can be depressing, inhuman or aggressive, but it must be useful. Otherwise, it's n***.

I LIKE THE WORD "SUDDENLY". He walked out the door and suddenly...