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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 give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home."
Home

"I am happy to have now as Danny finally a more difficult role, in which I can shoot and fight."
Fight

"You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all."
Actor

"I got into the acting business very young."
Business

"When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors."
Actor

"My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books."
Idea

"And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing."
Idea

"And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show."
Success

"It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up."
Winning

"Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman."
Love
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