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"Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood."
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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
"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."
"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
"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."
"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."
"Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy."
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"Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese."
"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."
"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."
"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."
"Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care."
"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV."
"We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing."
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