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"I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy."
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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
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"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
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"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."
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"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."
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"You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors."
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"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
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"I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor."
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"I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable."
Life
"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
Mistake
"Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks."
Nothing
"I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night."
Night
"I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it."
Funny
"I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy."
Actor
"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
Acting
"I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it."
Time
"Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think."
Pretty
"With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily."
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