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"I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"
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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."
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"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."
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"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."
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"We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?"
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"It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory."
People
"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
Shakespeare
"I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary."
Work
"My definition of success is control."
Success
"Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty."
People
"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."
Love
"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
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"The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers."
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"The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors."
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