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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it."
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"Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior."
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"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."
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"It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does."
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"Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to."
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"I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A."
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"When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way."
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"Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit."
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"I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot."
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"You're going to relegate my history to a month."
History
"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
Acting
"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."
People
"I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in."
Love
"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."
Actor
"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
Life
"If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind."
Mind
"Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."
Time
"Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness."
Character
"When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater."
God
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