"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

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"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."

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"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."

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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."

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"I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest."

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"And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene."

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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."

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"I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera."

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"I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning."

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"I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time."

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"I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar."

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"After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left."

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"I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different."

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